Visibl Semiconductors YC Application

Winter 2026Active

Visibl Semiconductors went through Y Combinator in the Winter 2026 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: Winter 2026
Industry: B2BEngineering, Product and Design
Team size: 2
Status: Active
Launched: 2026

Founders

Bryce NeilFounder
Jordon KashanchiFounder

What Visibl Semiconductors does

Visibl makes custom chip development dramatically faster and lower cost for hardware companies. Today, most hardware companies that need a custom chip have bad options: sign a massive contract with an incumbent like Broadcom, pay a traditional design house millions of dollars and wait 18+ months, or keep using off-the-shelf chips and FPGAs that are not optimized for their product's cost, power, performance, size, or manufacturability. We handle the full path from architecture and design through verification, foundry management, and production. That makes custom ASICs accessible to robotics, drones, industrial, IoT, and edge hardware companies that were previously priced out of the market. As more hardware products need differentiated silicon, we think custom chip development should be available to far more companies than it is today.

Visibl Semiconductors's YC application, reconstructed

Y Combinator application

Visibl Semiconductors, Winter 2026 batch. The real form questions, answered from public data.

Founders2
Company7
Progress7
Idea4
Equity3
Curious2
Batch Preference1

Company

Company name

Visibl Semiconductors

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

A faster, lower cost path to custom silicon

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

We build a platform that dramatically shortens the timeline and lowers the cost for hardware companies to develop custom chips. Our product manages the entire custom ASIC process - from architecture to production - so robotics, drones, industrial, IoT, and edge hardware makers can get optimized silicon without the traditional delays and high costs.

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

We live in San Francisco, CA, and the company will remain based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco has a strong hardware and semiconductor ecosystem, plus access to the engineers we need. We're already here and focused on building the company locally.

21 more answers in the full application

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is this the real Visibl Semiconductors YC application?

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