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Discovered Materials

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Founded 2026Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

We use AI to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry - specifically datacenters and fabs. Finding novel materials today takes 10+ years of lab work. We aim to compress that timeline to months, using a swarm of AI agents.

Akash completed his PhD at Stanford on material discovery for semiconductors. The materials he discovered for nanoscale interconnects have been adopted into the roadmaps of Intel and TSMC. Advaith was the founding applied scientist at Persona AI (acquired by Luma Labs), where he built long horizon autonomous agents for major telecom and crypto companies.

Power consumption and heat release from AI chips is doubling every year. The semiconductor industry needs new materials to keep this exponential going - Discovered Materials will help find them.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

Previously MatForge, Matforge, matforge

Company history As recorded 2026-11-08

Akash Ramdas

Founder/CEO

Discovering the next silicon using AI scientists. Founder at Matforge MS, PhD, Post-Doc at Stanford - Material Science and Engineering

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
2team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2026 · Source

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
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