Discovered Materials
AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.
Discovered Materials at a glance
- Y Combinator batch
- Spring 2026
- Status
- Active
- Industry
- Industrials
- Team size
- 2 people
- Location
- Not recorded
- Website
- Not recorded
Every field above comes from the Y Combinator company record. Nothing is estimated.
About Discovered Materials
We use AI to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry - specifically datacenters and fabs. Finding novel materials today takes 10+ years of lab work. We aim to compress that timeline to months, using a swarm of AI agents. Akash completed his PhD at Stanford on material discovery for semiconductors. The materials he discovered for nanoscale interconnects have been adopted into the roadmaps of Intel and TSMC. Advaith was the founding applied scientist at Persona AI (acquired by Luma Labs), where he built long horizon autonomous agents for major telecom and crypto companies. Power consumption and heat release from AI chips is doubling every year. The semiconductor industry needs new materials to keep this exponential going - Discovered Materials will help find them.