We build AI agents for chip design teams.
Unlike generic coding assistants, we build AI that actually understands the EDA flow — not just the syntax.
Founded 2025 · Zurich, Switzerland · VC-backed
How it started
40% of every engineering day — wasted.
Harald Kröll spent years at ON Semiconductor and u-blox watching the same structural problem repeat itself: senior chip design engineers burning half their day on repetitive, low-level tasks. Bus interface generation. Testbench updates. Documentation rewrites.
When AI coding tools arrived, the same teams tried GitHub Copilot and Cursor. They failed — not because engineers lacked skill, but because the tools had no concept of an EDA toolchain, couldn't process a design hierarchy spanning thousands of files, and fell over the moment anyone tried to run a simulation.
Sandro Belfanti had spent parallel years at the intersection of chip design and AI. Together, they founded Chipmind in Zurich in 2025 — the first European AI agent platform built specifically for semiconductor engineering teams.
What we aim to achieve and why
Bring the fastest chip development experience to every semiconductor team — end-to-end.
From requirements to manufacturing. Through AI that understands the full flow — not just the syntax.
Mission
Build AI agents that handle the routine work — so chip design engineers can focus on the architectural decisions that define what's possible in computing.
Vision
A world where AI handles the entire chip development flow end-to-end — allowing human engineers to operate at a level of abstraction not yet possible.
Founding team and partners.
Harald Kröll
CEO & Co-Founder
Background in semiconductor industry operations — ON Semiconductor, u-blox, and others. Brings deep understanding of what slows down real design teams at scale.
"I've seen what 40% wasted engineering time looks like across hundreds of engineers. We built Chipmind to fix it."
Sandro Belfanti
CTO & Co-Founder
Dual expertise in chip design and AI systems. Architect of the Chipmind agent infrastructure — from context engine to in-flow execution layer.
"Chip design is one of the hardest software problems. It deserves AI built specifically for it."
Prof. Luca Benini
Scientific Advisor
Full Professor at ETH Zürich. World-renowned researcher in low-power chip design, RISC-V architecture, and AI hardware. Lends scientific depth and academic credibility to Chipmind's approach.
Our ecosystem
Milestones achieved.
Our impact and awards.
Measured results from real PoCs with semiconductor teams. Every number comes from an actual customer engagement.
6× faster
46 min → 7 min
Verification task — Senior Engineer
14× faster
4 hours → 18 min
RTL generation — Junior IC Designer
4× faster
21 min → 5 min
Integration task — Application Engineer
Awards & Recognition
Academic & Industry Support
We're growing. Come build with us.
Hard problems. Real impact. Zurich-based with remote flexibility.
See Chipmind
in action.
We work in your environment, with your EDA tools, on your real designs. No ramp-up. No disruption. NDA protected from day one.
- ✓6–14× speed-up on real tasks
- ✓IP stays in your environment
- ✓EDA-agnostic. No new licenses.
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