Endiya Partners and Exfinity Venture Partners co-led a $4.15 million seed funding round for deep tech startup Maieutic Semiconductor.
According to a press release from Maieutic, the money will be utilized to hire the team, better time to market, and grow its engineering team.
By integrating generative AI into design and development processes, Maieutic, which was co-founded in March 2025 by Gireesh Rajendran, Ashish Lachhwani, Rakesh Kumar, and Krishna Sankar, seeks to revolutionize chip design. The business’s GenAI-first solution will greatly speed up the domain expert review process, early-stage chip design, and intelligent analysis of design trade-offs—all of which are normally resource- and time-intensive.
By 2030, the global semiconductor market is expected to reach $1 trillion, according to market research.
The Bengaluru-based startup uses state-of-the-art AI techniques in conjunction with decades of deep analog and semiconductor experience to develop a copilot that detects inconsistencies without the need for expert intervention, shortens the design cycle from weeks to days, and adds intelligence to every trade-off.
Starting with analog IC design, which is essential to next-generation communications, automotive, and industrial electronics, Maieutic seeks to address a huge market opportunity.
In contrast to Exfinity Venture Partners, which actively invests in deep-tech and semiconductor startups and has exited companies like Kinara.ai, an edge AI semiconductor company, Endiya Partners was also an early investor in Steradian Semiconductors, which was founded by the founder and CEO of Maieutic and later acquired by a Chinese company called Renesas Electronics.
