Discovered Materials

YC company profile

AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.

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.

• YC batch: Spring 2026
• Founded: 2026
• Team size: 2
• Location: San Francisco
• Country: US
• Status: Active
• Industry: Industrials
• Stage: Early
• Tags: Semiconductors, AI
• YC partner: Aaron Epstein

Founders

Advaith Sridhar — Founder/CTO

Founder at Discovered Materials. Alma Matter: CMU, IIT-Madras

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Akash Ramdas — Co-Founder

Discovering the next silicon using AI scientists. Co-founder at Discovered Materials
MS, PhD, Post-Doc at Stanford - Material Science and Engineering

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.