--- title: Circuit Mind raises $25m to design circuit boards with AI description: Circuit Mind has raised $25 million to design circuit boards with AI. Norwest led an $18.5 million Series A, and the company also disclosed an earlier seed... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/circuit-mind-raises-25m-to-design-circuit-boards-with-ai-kl0nii2ya twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Circuit Mind raises $25m to design circuit boards with AI | daily.dev og:description: Circuit Mind has raised $25 million to design circuit boards with AI. Norwest led an $18.5 million Series A, and the company also disclosed an earlier seed... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/circuit-mind-raises-25m-to-design-circuit-boards-with-ai-kl0nii2ya og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/kL0nIi2Ya.png og:image:alt: Circuit Mind raises $25m to design circuit boards with AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Circuit Mind raises $25m to design circuit boards with AI **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Circuit Mind has raised $25 million to design circuit boards with AI. Norwest led an $18.5 million Series A, and the company also disclosed an earlier seed round led by Third Prime. The London startup's first product, ACE, turns a block diagram into a schematic and parts list in minutes. Its second product, AVE, uses AI agents to check schematics against datasheets and design rules. Engineering teams at Emerson, Schneider Electric and Fortune 5 companies already work with Circuit Mind, which says it has cut design time from months to weeks and parts costs by 25%. Engineers at Los Alamos National Laboratory finished one design in four hours instead of two weeks. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How much funding did Circuit Mind raise for AI circuit board design? Circuit Mind raised $25 million total, combining an $18.5 million Series A led by Norwest with an earlier seed round led by Third Prime. Existing investors Third Prime, Differential and Blackhorn joined the Series A alongside new investor Lightscape VC. Dave Zilberman, a Norwest general partner, joined Circuit Mind's board as part of the deal. _Track funding and product moves in AI-assisted hardware design as they happen on daily.dev._ ### What do Circuit Mind's ACE and AVE products do? ACE turns a block diagram into a schematic and parts list in minutes, offering design options optimized for cost, size, power or supply chain availability. AVE, launched alongside the funding news, uses a group of AI agents to check schematics against datasheets and a company's own design rules, reviewing its own findings before reporting to the engineer. _Developers evaluating AI design-automation tools can follow new product launches like this on daily.dev._ ### What results have companies reported using Circuit Mind for circuit board design? Emerson, Schneider Electric and Fortune 5 companies cut design time from months to weeks and reduced parts costs by 25%, according to Circuit Mind. Los Alamos National Laboratory engineers finished one design in four hours instead of two weeks in a peer-reviewed case study. Schneider Electric's Daniel Gheno said early evaluations indicate potential to cut architecture exploration effort by more than 90%. _Engineers weighing AI tools against traditional hardware design workflows can keep up with case studies like this on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Architect Labs raises $24M for AI custom chip design](https://daily.dev/posts/architect-labs-raises-24m-for-ai-custom-chip-design-ddtbimggn) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI chip startup Etched defies skeptics, hits $10.3B valuation from big-name investors](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-chip-startup-etched-defies-skeptics-hits-10-3b-valuation-from-big-name-investors-iymxifl0b) · TechCrunch · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI chip startups soak up $1.1B in VC funding this week](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-chip-startups-soak-up-1-1b-in-vc-funding-this-week-sbcfggett) · The Register · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Prime Intellect raises $130M Series A to help enterprises build their own AI agents](https://daily.dev/posts/prime-intellect-raises-130m-series-a-to-help-enterprises-build-their-own-ai-agents-obnk2m77j) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#startup](https://daily.dev/tags/startup), [#ai-agents](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-agents), [#hardware](https://daily.dev/tags/hardware) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/circuit-mind-raises-25m-to-design-circuit-boards-with-ai-kl0nii2ya) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Circuit Mind raises $25m to design circuit boards with AI","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/circuit-mind-raises-25m-to-design-circuit-boards-with-ai-kl0nii2ya","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/circuit-mind-raises-25m-to-design-circuit-boards-with-ai-kl0nii2ya"},"datePublished":"2026-10-28T13:04:39.909Z","dateModified":"2026-10-28T14:58:02.772Z","description":"Circuit Mind has raised $25 million to design circuit boards with AI. 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