Agentrys
Category: AI Agents
Agentrys is pioneering Agentic Design Automation (ADA) for semiconductor chip design, building a platform where design teams create, own, and continuously improve AI agents that automate chip design workflows. Agentrys was founded in 2025. The company is led by Mark Ren. Based in Austin, Texas, United States. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $25M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include MediaTek (MediaTek Capital).
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- Austin, Texas, United States
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $25M
Value proposition
Agentrys enables semiconductor companies to build their own continuously improving agentic engineering workforce that runs securely on existing EDA infrastructure, learns from proprietary design data, and compounds in capability with every project — turning a company's methodology and data into a proprietary, compounding asset rather than renting generic AI capability.
Products and solutions
Agentrys Studio — a platform for building, deploying, evaluating, and continuously improving agentic engineering workflows for chip design. Initial focus on functional verification (testbench stimulus, checker generation, assertion creation), extending into physical implementation and optimization, with roadmap covering RTL design, analog design, and system design.
Unique value
The only Agentic Design Automation (ADA) platform purpose-built for semiconductor engineering that runs on-prem, behind the firewall, and learns from each design team's proprietary methodology and data — delivering self-improving agents that get better with every project.
Target customer
Semiconductor companies and engineering teams (engineering leadership at chip design firms, functional verification teams, physical implementation teams)
Industries served
Semiconductor / Chip Design, Electronic Design Automation (EDA)
Technology advantage
Deep expertise from NVIDIA's AI-for-chip-design leadership (ChipNeMo, GPU-accelerated EDA, NVCell, DreamPlace); team includes creators of key industry benchmarks (VerilogEval, CVDP); proven results of ~95% on checker/assertion generation and ~90% on testbench stimulus generation on CVDP benchmark; backed by MediaTek; strong research pedigree with 10+ best paper awards at top EDA conferences.
How they differentiate
Unlike point-tool AI solutions or general-purpose coding agents, Agentrys delivers a full-stack platform for agentic engineering workflows that: (1) runs securely on-prem/air-gapped, (2) learns from each customer's proprietary design data and methodology, (3) covers the full workflow lifecycle (not just isolated tasks), and (4) compounds in capability over time as agents improve from every execution cycle.
Main competitors
ChipAgents, Cognichip, Ricursive Intelligence, Normal Computing, Architect Labs
Key partnerships
MediaTek (strategic investor and partner)
Major milestones
2026-07: Introduced Agentic Design Automation (ADA) at DAC 2026, 2026-07: Designed a real chip (AgentCore, 32-bit CPU) with multi-agent workforce from spec to sign-off-clean GDS on open-source flow, 2026-02: Mark Ren delivered DesignCon keynote on Agentic AI for Chip Design, 2025: Company founded by Mark Ren (ex-NVIDIA Director of Design Automation Research)
Growth metrics
Published results on CVDP benchmark: ~95% on checker generation and assertion generation, ~90% on testbench stimulus generation
Market positioning
Early-stage pioneer in the emerging Agentic Design Automation (ADA) category within the EDA market, competing alongside other well-funded AI-for-EDA startups. Positioned as the enterprise-grade, on-prem, data-sovereign option for semiconductor companies that want to build proprietary AI capability rather than rent generic tools.
Geographic focus
Global (US-headquartered with semiconductor industry reach across US, Asia, and Europe)
About Mark Ren
Ex-NVIDIA Director of Design Automation Research (led AI-for-chip-design and ChipNeMo); Ex-IBM Research (physical design, logic synthesis, IBM Corporate Award recipient). IEEE Fellow. 26 years of EDA and AI R&D experience.
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Official website: https://agentrys.ai