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Agentrys Raises $24.5 Million to Build Agentic Design Automation for Chipmakers - Semiconductor Digest

AnnouncementFundingAug 26, 2026

Agentrys, a chip-design automation startup, has raised $24.5 million, comprising a $19.1 million seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4 million pre-seed led by MediaTek. Founded by Mark Ren, formerly of NVIDIA Research and IBM Research, where he led ChipNeMo, the company develops Agentic Design Automation. Agentrys says it ran an autonomous multi-agent workflow that took a 32-bit CPU from specification to sign-off-clean GDS layout.

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