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Discovered Materials

HQ San FranciscoFounded 20261-10 employees

Develops AI agents to discover new materials for semiconductor chips.

Startup
Website
Total raised
$9.0M
1 round
Last round
$9.0M
Seed · Aug 10, 2026

Funding1 round · $9.0M

Equity raised
$9.0M
Latest
$9.0MSeed · Aug 10, 2026

Raised counts equity rounds; debt, secondary sales and grants are totaled separately. Amounts in other currencies are converted at the announcement month's average rate. A ~ marks an estimated or converted amount.

Hiring Observations3 observed listings

A sample of observed listings, not a total vacancy count. Availability may have changed since collection. Categories are inferred from job titles.

Sources8

Profile6

  1. 1
    CompanyDiscovered Materials — Accelerating the lab-to-fab timeline

    Discovered Materials · Supports Organization · description, Organization · name

    “Today, we introduce Discovered Materials: we build AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips.”
  2. 2
    DatabaseDiscovered Materials - PitchBook company profile

    PitchBook · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “country: US”
  3. 3
    DatabaseSixth-Domain public startups directory

    Sixth-Domain · Supports Organization · kind

    “{"group": "startups", "id": "be49aa48-63b6-4e38-9b8c-475fd89fb16c", "name": "Matforge"}”
  4. 4
    DatabaseDiscovered Materials - Crunchbase company profile

    Crunchbase · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url, Organization · x url

    “country: US”
  5. 5
    DatabaseDiscovered Materials - LinkedIn company profile

    LinkedIn · Supports Organization · country, Organization · employee range, Organization · founded year, Organization · hq city, Organization · linkedin url

    “country: US”
  6. 6
    CompanyLaunch YC: Matforge - AI Scientists to discover new semiconductor materials | Y Combinator

    Y Combinator · Supports Organization · aliases, Organization · website

    “Home › Launches › Discovered Materials 25 Matforge - AI Scientists to discover new semiconductor materials Discovering 10x better materials for use in next generation electronic chips Advaith Sridhar 6 months ago Embed https://discoveredmaterials.com”

Funding1

  1. 7
    NewsLightspeed India leads $9 Mn seed round in deep-tech startup Discovered Materials

    Entrackr · Aug 11, 2026 · Supports Funding round · amount, Organization · ownership

    “has raised $9 million (Rs 85 crore) in a seed funding round led by Lightspeed India Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners and global angel investors including Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram and Thariq Shihipar”

Other1

  1. 8
    CompanyDiscovered Materials public job board

    Supports Job posting

    “Founding Process Engineer”

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