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.
Backed by & partnered with
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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