Chip design is getting an AI upgrade, and a new player just landed serious backing to push it forward. Agentrys has raised $19.1M in seed funding, with Etna Labs leading the round.
The company is an applied research team building what it calls Agentic Design Automation (ADA)-a platform that lets design teams create and manage their own AI agents to automate real chip-design work, using the tools and data they already have. The team draws on experience from NVIDIA, Meta, AMD, Samsung, Google, and Siemens, with a track record that includes contributions to systems like ChipNeMo, NVCell, and DreamPlace. The fresh capital gives Agentrys runway to scale its approach as the semiconductor industry increasingly looks to AI for efficiency gains.














