native semiconductor verification startup VerifAIX raises $5 million to expand growth, engineering teams
Vivek Vishwakarma16 Sep 2026
12:59IST
New Update
VerifAIX, an AI-native semiconductor verification startup, has raised $5 million in a seed funding round co-led by Endiya Partners and Bluehill VC.
The round marks the startup’s first institutional funding and will support product development, customer deployments and expansion of its engineering teams across US, India and Israel.
Founded by Madhulima Tewari, Kenneth Roe and Avner Landver, VerifAIX is building an AI-native verification platform for semiconductor design, helping engineering teams verify increasingly complex chips with greater speed, rigor and confidence.
The startup’s platform combines AI with formal methods to create a verification trust layer that connects design specifications, RTL and verification assets, enabling trusted and traceable verification from design intent to closure.
VerifAIX will use the raised capital to advance its Formal Brain, scale automated abstraction and decomposition to larger designs, strengthen formal and simulation capabilities, and expand customer deployments.
It will also grow its engineering teams in US, India and Israel, with a focus on AI research, formal verification and semiconductor engineering.
“AI is changing how semiconductor designs are created, but generating a design is not the same as proving that it is correct,” said Madhulima Tewari, CEO, VerifAIX.
“As AI becomes part of the engineering process, the industry needs an independent layer of trust that can establish correctness and preserve traceability to design intent. Our vision is to build that verification trust layer for AI-driven semiconductor development, and this funding enables us to deepen the technology and take the platform to increasingly complex designs and customers”
VerifAIX has built a working platform that is being deployed with multiple semiconductor companies on real-world verification challenges, including complex control-intensive and protocol-heavy designs.
The startup is targeting a broad range of custom-silicon developers, including semiconductor and IP companies, processor and AI accelerator developers, hyperscalers and systems companies.
“AI is accelerating chip creation, but correctness is becoming the bottleneck. VerifAIX stood out for its approach to this trust problem, combining AI with a mathematically grounded Formal Brain, built by a team with rare depth across AI, formal verification and semiconductors. We believe VerifAIX can become a critical trust layer in the semiconductor engineering stack,” said Medha Kannapally, Endiya Partners.
“Verification is already one of the most difficult and resource-intensive parts of chip development, and the challenge will only grow as designs become more complex and AI accelerates engineering,” said Sridhar Parthasarathi, Bluehill VC.
“VerifAIX combines AI with rigorous verification technology and deep semiconductor expertise. Its early customer work demonstrates the potential for a verification trust layer that semiconductor teams can rely on as AI becomes more deeply integrated into chip design workflows.”
FundingEndiya PartnersSemiconductor
