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Bronco AI (YC S23) — AI for ASIC design verification

Bronco is an applied AI lab helping chipmakers keep Moore’s law going. Our mission is to build AI silicon verification engineers that find bugs, drive functional coverage, and help companies ship working chips on time.

Bronco AI is a Y Combinator company in the Summer 2023 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: AI for ASIC Design Verification. The founders listed are David Zhi LuoZhang (Founder), Jeffrey Pan (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, May 13, 2023).

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Bronco AI

New accelerator entry · 2023-05-13 · the record

Summer 2023
batch
5
people
Early
stage
United States of America
region
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BatchSummer 2023
Announced2023-05-13
StageEarly
StatusActive
Team size5
IndustryB2B
Sub-industryB2B -> Engineering, Product and Design
SectorsArtificial Intelligence, B2B, Enterprise Software, Semiconductors
RegionsUnited States of America, America / Canada
BasedSan Francisco, CA, USA
HiringNo
Sitehttps://www.bronco.ai/

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Bronco is an applied AI lab helping chipmakers keep Moore’s law going. Our mission is to build AI silicon verification engineers that find bugs, drive functional coverage, and help companies ship working chips on time. We're currently deployed alongside verification teams at leading chip companies building next generation hardware (4 nm process node). We are well-funded and backed by tier-1 investors, including YC, 8VC, Elad Gil, SV Angel, and Contrary Capital. We have also established strong relationships with the leading academic and industry researchers in the field of AI for chip design. Our advisors have won multiple Best Paper Awards at leading conferences, been cited tens of thousands of times, and received some of the highest honors in the microelectronics and EDA industries.

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