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Circuit Mind

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Circuit Mind

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Generate, verify, and optimize hardware designs with provable accuracy, inside your ECAD tools. Validated by Los Alamos National Laboratory. observed

fresh · evidence today 11 sources no confidence data
50.7/100
Venture signal
scored above 35% of unstaged peers stage unparsed
Outlook Stable
Why this score? ↓

What is established three decisions, kept apart

  1. 1 Identity verified Not recorded

    No person- or entity-level identity check is on record for this company. A name match is not one.

  2. 2 In the ranked index Yes

    The ranked index lists private AI companies with two or more independent sourced evidence families; its Early-stage view also leaves out rounds of $100M or more that no source assigns a stage. This profile is listed in the ranked index. It is a statement about evidence and mandate, and about nothing else.

  3. 3 Fit for a seed/Series-A sourcing buyer Fit not established

    We have not established fit. That is not a soft no and not a soft yes — it is unknown, and it is never counted as a qualified prospect.

    Venture backing, as assessed: no institutional venture investor identified · Stage, as assessed: not established by any source

    Assessed 2026-11-12 for seed/Series-A sourcing.

Funding
$25M
2026-10-28
Adoption
no signal
downloads / week
Developer
not scored
momentum / 100
Hiring
5
eng openings
Commercial
sales-led
homepage

New infrastructure surfaces

Subdomains appearing in public certificate-transparency logs — infrastructure standing up, dated at detection. Intent labels are deterministic (token map), not guessed.

dashboard.sandbox.circuitmind.io launch prep 11-04 internal.circuitmind.io 11-04 api.ace.circuitmind.io product surface 10-28 api.ace-data.circuitmind.io product surface 10-28 app.schematic-review.sandbox.circuitmind.io launch prep 10-28 api.ave.circuitmind.io product surface 10-28

Traction

Latest cited round

Opportunity & risk

↗ Strongest signal: funding_recency (19% of the score).

↓ Scored on 2 of 4 components — adoption, developer had no computable metric.

9 independent sources 0 promoted signals inspect the evidence →

The skeptic's read what this company has said, judged against what happened

16 claims on record 0 verified 0 contradicted 16 not evaluated

Not evaluated ≠ false — the deadline or the evidence hasn't arrived. A forecast with no target date cannot be graded and is counted as insufficient temporal evidence. Nothing here is editorial: every count is a ledger row you can open on the Proof page.

Evaluation

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Platform score derived
51/100
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VIX signals 6 hard signals across 1 source ▾

The platform's own early signals for this company — hard-to-fake observations. Where one was recorded before a raise, the gap is shown; that is an observation, not a prediction.

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Technology No signals collected yet ▾
No technology data yet. This category is part of the record and will populate as evidence is collected or the founder provides it.
Team & hiring 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Team size (reported)
not provided
Open eng roles
5 observed
Total open roles
8 observed
Market & funding stage 2 of 3 signals present ▾
Latest round stage (as stated)
not provided
Latest round amount
$25M observed
Latest round announced
2026-10-28 observed
Timeline 1 events ▾
  1. 2026-10-28 Round · $25M

Evidence & scoring

Why this score? none_required ▾

VentureSignalScore 50.7/100 for circuit-mind, composed from 2 of 4 components (index v0 cross-signal), discounted ×0.85 for 50% signal coverage

ComponentWeightNormalizedContribution
funding_recency 0.2 0.9535 0.1907
funding_magnitude 0.3 0.3592 0.1078

Evidence this score rests on

Narrative vs. reality No SEC filing found for this round

Reported narrative · Tier 2
$25M
announced 2026-10-28 · source ↗
Filed reality · Tier 0 · SEC
No SEC Form D on record.

An evidence gap, not proof of falsity: Form D is not always required (foreign offerings, certain exemptions) or may not be filed yet.

Financing events four different events, four different dates

A first sale, a filing, an amendment and a public announcement are not the same event, and one date may not stand in for another. Where the latest financing date cannot be established from what we hold, this says unknown rather than substituting a date we do have.

Latest established financing date
2026-10-28
Money moved on or after
2026-10-28
Total reported by
not established
Basis
reported round

A reported round dated 2026-10-28 by its own source.

Community chatter Hacker News · Tier 3 · unverified manip. risk low · 0

Gray-market attention, not quality. 1+ HN mentions (peak 1 points). Claim-shaped headlines are rumors until corroborated — a Tier-3 factual claim carries no evidentiary weight on its own. ▲ 1 EDA Platform "ACE" from Circuit Mind 2024-02-08 ↗

Raw observations 28 current records ▾

Showing the 28 current records. Full observation history — 17 superseded records →

AttributeValueKindSourceObservedStateConf.
ai.document.claims {"claims": [{"claim": "Circuit Mind is an electronic design intelligence platform that generates, verifies, and optimizes hardware designs with provable accuracy.", "quote": "The electronic design int observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 promoted 0.50
buyer_fit.assessment {"buyer": "seed/Series-A sourcing", "method": "Backlog pass 2026-10-24: applied the record_buyer_fit.ts fit rule to this company's held primary-source financing evidence (funding.round.* / sec.form_d. observed readiness 2026-11-13 normalized 0.90
buyer_fit.status unknown observed assessment 2026-11-12 normalized 0.90
common_name Circuit Mind observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.90
common_name AI for Electronics Design & Verification observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.60
community.hn.max_points 1 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.mentions 1 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.rumors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.20
community.hn.top_story {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39304960", "title": "EDA Platform \"ACE\" from Circuit Mind", "points": 1, "created_at": "2024-02-08"} observed artifact ↗ 2024-02-08 normalized 0.20
description Generate, verify, and optimize hardware designs with provable accuracy, inside your ECAD tools. Validated by Los Alamos National Laboratory. observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.70
domain www.circuitmind.io observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.95
funding.round.amount_usd 25000000 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.90
funding.round.announced_on 2026-10-28 observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.90
funding.round.lead_investors [] observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.90
funding.round.source_url https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/28/circuit-mind-lands-25m-and-puts-ai-agents-to-work-checking-circuit-board-schematics/ observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.90
gate.accumulation {"outcome": "document_created", "obs_count": 14, "source_id": "01M7BM684DS4RD6CKF06NEPZYB", "trigger_path": "accumulation_gate", "collector_count": 3, "artifact_collector": "website_collector"} observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.60
jobs.board_url https://careers.circuitmind.io/ observed page 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.engineering 5 observed page 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.observed {"url": "https://careers.circuitmind.io/", "basis": "job_links", "method": "read automatically from the job links on the company's own careers page (two or more distinct titles required)", "titles": [ observed page 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
jobs.postings.total 8 observed page 2026-11-13 normalized 0.85
metric.venture.funding_amount_usd 25000000 derived calc 2026-10-28 derived 0.90
metric.venture.funding_recency_days 17.0367 derived calc 2026-11-14 derived 0.90
platform.visibility published observed inclusion 2026-11-13 normalized 1.00
score.venture_signal 50.7 derived calc 2026-11-13 derived 0.60
source.document.reference {"kind": "document", "title": "circuit-mind: AI for Electronics Design & Verification | Circuit Mind", "source_id": "01M7BM684DS4RD6CKF06NEPZYB", "extract_ref": "artifact:sha256:46d6c08ab6c9d6f1685164 observed artifact ↗ 2026-11-13 normalized 0.95
website_url https://www.circuitmind.io observed enrichment 2026-10-28 normalized 0.75
website_url https://www.circuitmind.io observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.95
website.homepage.has_pricing_link false observed artifact ↗ 2026-10-28 normalized 0.80