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CircuitLeap

AI-native IC design, packaging and simulation

  • Hardware
  • Design Tools
  • Generative AI
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About

CircuitLeap makes AI-native design software for heterogeneous chips, where dies built on different process technologies are packaged together. Engineers load several process design kits, along with the package and the board, into one project, design across all of them, and simulate the system as a whole rather than one node at a time.

David Tournatory, who previously co-founded the power-chip company Gazelle Semiconductor, started it in 2024 with Nuno Lourenço, a circuit-design researcher at Lisbon's Instituto Superior Técnico, and Nathan Rigalle. The team works between Redwood City and Lisbon.

Array led CircuitLeap's pre-seed round in July 2024, alongside the Portuguese funds Bynd and Faber.

Record

Stage
PreSeed
Category
Hardware
Location
Redwood City and Lisbon
Team
1-10
Array came in at
Pre-Seed, 2024

Founders

  • David Tournatory

    Co-founder & CEO

    Previously co-founder and CEO of Gazelle Semiconductor, acquired by Silergy, after nine years designing power chips at Volterra.

  • Nuno Lourenço

    Co-founder & CTO

    Previously an assistant professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, after nearly a decade as a researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações.

  • Nathan Rigalle

    Co-founder

    Previously an adjunct professor at the French engineering school EIGSI, after computer vision research at Safran.