Advaith Sridhar

Co-founder & CEO of Discovered Materials, a deep tech company based in San Francisco.

Co-founder · CEOSan FranciscoDeep Tech

Founded

2026

San Francisco, California, USA

Raised to date

$9M

1 round on record

Latest round

Seed (Aug 2026)

$9M · Aug 2026

Team

1–10

Discovered Materials, Inc.

About

Advaith Sridhar is Co-founder & CEO of Discovered Materials, a deep tech company based in San Francisco, founded in 2026. Discovered Materials's most recent disclosed round was a Seed (Aug 2026) of $9M in Aug 2026.

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Company

Est. 2026

Discovered Materials

Deep Tech · San Francisco · 1–10 people · Active

Discovered Materials (Discovered Materials, Inc.) is a San Francisco-based deep-tech startup founded in 2026 by Akash Ramdas and Advaith Sridhar. It uses swarms of AI agents, built on frontier models and validated with in-house physics simulations, to discover new materials for semiconductor chips, with an initial focus on thermal materials for AI processors.

Funding

Aug 2026Seed (Aug 2026)$9MLightspeed India Partners, Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners, Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram, Thariq Shihipar

Company profile →1 round on record

Journey with Discovered Materials

2 milestones

2026Founded
Discovered Materials founded in San Francisco by Akash Ramdas and Advaith Sridhar, emerging from Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, to build AI agents for semiconductor materials discovery.
Aug 2026Milestone
Raised a $9M (₹85 crore) seed led by Lightspeed India Partners and released the Material Discovery Bench, a benchmark for AI agents on semiconductor materials problems.

Also building Discovered Materials

ARAkash RamdasCo-founder→

Coverage

1 story

Funding · 11 Aug 2026 · 5 min read

Discovered Materials Raises $9 Million in Seed Round Led by Lightspeed India to Build AI Materials Scientists

Quick answers

Who is Advaith Sridhar?

Advaith Sridhar is a Co-founder & CEO of Discovered Materials, a deep tech company based in San Francisco, founded in 2026.

Who founded Discovered Materials?

Discovered Materials's founders and leadership on record at StartupFox are Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas.

How much funding has Discovered Materials raised?

Discovered Materials has raised $9M across 1 disclosed round on record. The latest was a Seed (Aug 2026) of $9M in Aug 2026, with Lightspeed India Partners, Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners.

Where is Discovered Materials based?

Discovered Materials is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

What has StartupFox reported about Advaith Sridhar?

StartupFox has published 1 story naming Advaith Sridhar; the most recent is “Discovered Materials Raises $9 Million in Seed Round Led by Lightspeed India to Build AI Materials Scientists”.

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