Funding alert: Tech startups that raked in moolah this month

The Tech Panda takes a look at recent funding events in the tech ecosystem, seeking to know where the cash is flowing.

Startup: Tattvam AI

Sector: DeepTech

Amount: US$1.7 Million

Led by: Seedcamp

Tattvam AI, a deeptech startup building AI systems to automate semiconductor chip design, announced it has raised US$1.7 million in pre-seed funding led by Seedcamp, with participation from EWOR, Entropy Industrial Ventures, Concept Ventures, semiconductor angel Stan Boland.

“Chip design is fundamentally a reasoning problem over an enormous search space, not unlike the kind of reasoning that’s needed to solve hard problems in mathematics. Current AI tools, even the most advanced LLMs, struggle with the deep structural understanding that chip design demands. We’re building a reasoning model that actually understands circuits from first principles – the constraints, the tradeoffs, the interdependencies – the same way a world-class engineer would, and doing it in ...