SigmanticAI YC Application

Summer 2025Active

SigmanticAI went through Y Combinator in the Summer 2025 batch as a B2B company. Below: what the company does, who founded it, and its application to YC, reconstructed question by question in the real YC form.

YC batch: Summer 2025
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2025

Founders

Rohil KhareFounder
Tamzid RazzaqueFounder

What SigmanticAI does

SigmanticAI is building an AI-native hardware development assistant that automates the entire RTL design flow, from natural language to synthesizable HDL and testbenches, inside a seamless VSCode fork. Powered by fine-tuned Verilog LLMs, reinforcement learning, and real compiler feedback, SigmanticAI iteratively refines code until it compiles and passes synthesis, no matter how complex the design. It’s like the Cursor for HDL design. In addition to code generation, SigmanticAI can generate token-level annotations and onboarding documents to accelerate ramp-up for new engineers. With support for both cloud and on-prem deployment, it integrates with existing EDA tools to dramatically reduce debug time, improve collaboration, and accelerate hardware design across teams

SigmanticAI's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

SigmanticAI, Summer 2025 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

SigmanticAI

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

The Cursor for Chip Design

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

We are building an AI-native assistant for hardware engineers that automates the entire RTL design flow. Our product converts natural language descriptions into synthesizable Verilog code and testbenches inside a VSCode fork. It uses fine-tuned Verilog language models and compiler feedback to iterate on code until it compiles and passes synthesis. It also generates annotations and onboarding docs to help teams ramp up faster, and integrates with existing EDA tools for cloud and on-prem deployment.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

We live and work in Dublin, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

Dublin is where we built the product and where both founders live. Staying here allows us to remain close to our network and target customers in Silicon Valley.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real SigmanticAI YC application?

No. Y Combinator keeps submitted applications private. This is a reconstruction: the real YC form questions, answered from SigmanticAI's public data (launch notes, founder backgrounds, product description). It shows how a company like SigmanticAI would present itself to YC, not the text they submitted.