Vinci

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• 2026-10-06Vinci raises $250M at a $1.5B valuation for a physics model meant to replace simulation checkpoints in chip designCapital

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Funding rounds tracked

• 2026-10-06Series B · $250MconfirmedLed by Advent, Temasek, Xora Innovation · With AMD Ventures, Madrona · Existing investors Eclipse, Khosla VenturesStated use: expanding from thermal, thermo-mechanical and convective-fluid work in semiconductors to more physics and to memory, vehicles, aircraft and satellites
• 2025-12-02Series A (with an earlier seed) · $46M raised in all, across this Series A and the seed before itconfirmedLed by Xora Innovation · With Khosla Ventures · Existing investors Eclipse

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• 2026-10-13Tianxu Intelligent TechnologyPre-A+ · tens of millions of yuanBuilds a weather model for the energy industry (wind speed and solar irradiance rather than general forecasts) with the China Meteorological Administration's public service centre, and is putting the model on satellites of its own to make the observations it trains on.
• 2026-10-13Drylab AISeed · $3MAgents that run computational biology workflows end to end (planning the analysis, choosing among more than 800 tools and databases, getting the compute and working through failures), with a separate model of its own checking each analytical decision and flagging method errors; installed on a customer's private infrastructure or workstations.
• 2026-09-30ZenithonSeed · $10MWorld models for extreme physics (fusion reactors, rockets and semiconductor manufacturing) meant to replace simulations that take days to months, starting with fusion customers.
• 2026-09-30Autopoiesis SciencesSeed · $11MBuilds AI for scientific reasoning: Aristotle, a research assistant that helps scientists form hypotheses and weigh evidence, and Columbus-1, an autonomous system for long research problems. It says it builds training environments and datasets from expert scientists' judgment.
• 2026-09-24Metis ReasoningRound (unnamed) · tens of millions of dollarsEarly-stage lab building AI meant to reason and act reliably beyond its training data, naming embodied AI, science and engineering as target fields.
• 2026-09-22MirendilRound (unnamed) · up to $1BTrains models meant to do AI research themselves and builds a platform around them, so labs in drug discovery, chemistry or biology can do frontier AI work without becoming AI labs.

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