Hardware & IoT

Silimate

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Founded 2023Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

We're building AI-native tools & agent-driven workflows for frontend chip design.

Today, Fortune enterprises and chip unicorns license Silimate to hit their PPA targets and functional closure in days instead of months. With Silimate, chip companies tape out better, more market-competitive chips much more quickly.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Ann Wu

Founder

Co-founder & CEO of Silimate. Ann designed several generations of custom silicon at Apple, helped manage the inference ASIC programs at Meta, and developed product strategy & execution at an AI chip start-up.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Akash Levy

Founder

Co-founder & CTO of Silimate. Akash has a PhD from Stanford in Electrical Engineering, with technical expertise spanning EDA, AI, and cloud through his time at Synopsys, NVIDIA, and AWS. He has taped out 3 chips, published 14 papers on circuit design, and has two pending patents in the EDA space.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
8team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2023 · Source

News & product activity

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Y Combinator

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Website observationwebsite reachable
Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 3 of 6 areas documented

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