Motivo is a five-year-old startup creating AI software to speed up the chip design process. Its working product analyzes chip layout, underlying RTL code, and netlists to improve design-for-manufacturability, validation, and timing. The company aims to compress the design cycle from three years to three months and emphasizes transparent, explainable AI that can justify its recommendations. Motivo has paying customers, though it does not name them publicly. The company currently employs 15 people (12 full-time) and plans to double or triple headcount over the next year. Financially, Motivo announced a $12 million Series A and says it has raised $20 million in total including prior seed funding.

Total raised

$12M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Aug 2021