Founder · Discovered Materials

Advaith Sridhar

Co-founder & CEO of Discovered Materials, a deep tech company based in San Francisco.

Co-founder · CEOSan FranciscoDeep Tech
Founded
2026
San Francisco, California, USA
Raised to date
$9M
1 round on record
Latest round
Seed (Aug 2026)
$9M · Aug 2026
Team
1–10
Discovered Materials, Inc.

About

Advaith Sridhar is Co-founder & CEO of Discovered Materials, a deep tech company based in San Francisco, founded in 2026. Discovered Materials's most recent disclosed round was a funding round of $9M in Aug 2026.

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Company

Est. 2026
Discovered Materials
Deep Tech · San Francisco · 1–10 people · Active

Discovered Materials (Discovered Materials, Inc.) is a San Francisco-based deep-tech startup founded in 2026 by Akash Ramdas and Advaith Sridhar. It uses swarms of AI agents, built on frontier models and validated with in-house physics simulations, to discover new materials for semiconductor chips, with an initial focus on thermal materials for AI processors.

Funding
Aug 2026Seed (Aug 2026)$9MLightspeed India Partners, Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram, Thariq Shihipar
Company profile →1 round on record

Journey with Discovered Materials

2 milestones
  1. 2026Founded

    Discovered Materials founded in San Francisco by Akash Ramdas and Advaith Sridhar, emerging from Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, to build AI agents for semiconductor materials discovery.

  2. Aug 2026Milestone

    Raised a $9M (₹85 crore) seed led by Lightspeed India Partners and released the Material Discovery Bench, a benchmark for AI agents on semiconductor materials problems.

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Coverage

1 story
Funding · 11 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Discovered Materials Raises $9 Million in Seed Round Led by Lightspeed India to Build AI Materials Scientists