Semiconductor intelligence startup ThirdAI Automation has raised $3 million in a seed funding spherical co-led by Endiya Companions and Capria Ventures.

Based in 2024 by Dr Vivek Vishwakarma and Dr Sainyam Galhotra, ThirdAI is creating causal AI for superior manufacturing environments. The startup companions with semiconductor device distributors and fabs to enhance tools reliability, scale back unplanned downtime, and improve yield by pinpointing the basis causes of device, course of, and discipline points.

Its platform integrates tools logs, sensor information, service/discipline studies, and technical documentation right into a unified causal-intelligence layer that permits quicker diagnostics and extra resilient fab operations.

The startup will use the raised capital to scale product improvement, increase groups in India and abroad, and speed up deployments with tools producers and semiconductor fabs.

Dr. Vivek Vishwakarma, Co-Founder & CEO, ThirdAI, who brings over a decade of cross-industry expertise spanning semiconductors and batteries at Intel and Roche, stated, “We’re excited concerning the assist from our buyers as we scale ThirdAI. In a contemporary semiconductor fab, downtime is usually triggered by points engineers have already got the info for, however not the readability to diagnose shortly. ThirdAI is constructed to floor cause-and-effect relationships straight on the tools layer, in order that groups can act with confidence moderately than depend on trial and error.”

Dr. Sainyam Galhotra, Co-founder, ThirdAI, holds a Ph.D. from UMass Amherst, accomplished postdoctoral analysis on the College of Chicago, and serves on the college at Cornell College.

He stated, “This spherical will present the momentum required to take our know-how deeper into actual fab environments. Our long-term imaginative and prescient is to construct an working system for industrial operations, the place AI repeatedly causes over advanced, multimodal information to information selections throughout the manufacturing lifecycle.”

Commenting on the funding, Raghav Gupta, Vice President at Endiya Companions, added, “ThirdAI is tackling an actual downside in semiconductor manufacturing, the place tools downtime and course of points persist. Root trigger evaluation stays largely handbook and time-intensive. Their method has the potential to alter that. The founding group combines deep technical experience with {industry} expertise, and we’re excited to accomplice with them as they construct a transformative platform.”

Surya Mantha, Managing Accomplice at Capria Ventures, stated, “ThirdAI tackles one of many {industry}’s costliest bottlenecks, turning advanced tools information into clear, actionable causal insights. Their method can considerably enhance uptime and yield in high-volume, production-critical fabs. It’s also relevant to different always-on industrial methods like energy era, utilities, and chemical processing, which face related complexity and constraints.”