Visibl Semiconductors

AI agents for chip design.

Winter 2026ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignArtificial IntelligenceEnterprise SoftwareSemiconductorsSan Francisco, CA, USA

Company

https://visiblsemi.com

Visibl is an AI platform that turns compute into chip design capacity. As chips grow more complex, adding engineers yields diminishing returns — coordination costs rise while progress slows. The bottleneck is no longer ideas, but execution throughput. Visibl turns compute into a teammate. Our platform ingests the full design context (code, specs, scripts, tool outputs) to decode ambiguous tool feedback into actionable steps. We validate changes and package decisions for review, resulting in safer changes, shorter iteration cycles, and fewer late surprises on the path to tapeout.

Verdict

High Signal

Market Opportunity

The EDA/chip design software market is multi-billion and growing as chip complexity explodes post-Moore's Law. ICP is clear: semiconductor design teams at fabless companies, hyperscalers building custom silicon (Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple), and traditional chip companies. The pain point — iteration cycles, tapeout surprises, engineer coordination overhead — is real and well-documented. Enterprise B2B with high willingness to pay given the cost of a single tapeout ($5M–$50M+).

Medium Signal

Founder Signal

Jordon (CTO) has strong domain depth: 2.5 years as Silicon Design Engineer at Microsoft on AI accelerators, plus internships at Arm (AV silicon) and Intel (GPU). MS ECE from UT Austin, Cadence certifications, and published research in PNAS/ACM — this is exactly the right background for EDA tooling. Bryce (CEO) is weaker: his experience is short stints (Deloitte intern, healthcare startup intern, Canadian government) with no prior exits or deep semiconductor experience. The combination is solid-not-exceptional — one deep domain expert CTO plus a generalist CEO is workable but not elite.

Medium Signal

Competition

The EDA AI space is getting crowded: Synopsys.ai and Cadence's AI offerings (both incumbents with massive resources) are moving fast on AI-assisted design. Startups like Copilot for EDA (e.g., ChipAgents, unnamed YC peers) are emerging. However, Visibl's framing as a 'coordination layer' and context-ingestion agent rather than a point tool (e.g., just placement/routing optimization) is a plausible differentiation angle. The real threat is that Synopsys and Cadence own the tool ecosystem and can integrate AI natively.

Medium Signal

Product

The platform ingests full design context (code, specs, scripts, tool outputs) to decode EDA tool feedback into actionable steps and validate changes — this is a concrete technical description, not just a tagline. However, no named customer logos, pricing page, live demo, revenue metrics, or testimonials are visible. No press coverage exists, making traction impossible to verify.

OverallB Tier

Visibl has a credible technical founder in Jordon whose Microsoft AI silicon and Arm/Intel experience maps directly to the problem — he knows EDA pain firsthand. The market is genuinely large and the timing is right as hyperscalers race to build custom chips. The core risk is that the incumbents (Synopsys, Cadence) already have AI roadmaps and own the tool integrations that make a 'full design context' ingestion layer possible. Bryce's background is thin for a semiconductor-focused CEO — no domain experience, no prior exits, short tenures. No visible traction, customer logos, or press means this is still pre-proof. Interesting bet if they can land a design-win with a real team before the incumbents close the gap.

Active Founders

Jordon Kashanchi

Founder

Co-founder & CTO of Visibl Semiconductors. Jordon previously worked at Microsoft, Arm, and Intel, building expertise in AI accelerators, autonomous vehicle hardware, and graphics. Most recently at Microsoft, he designed digital logic and microarchitecture for next-gen custom AI silicon. He holds an MS in ECE from UT Austin and is published in PNAS and ACM for research on wearable biosensors.

Bryce Neil

Founder

Co-founder & CEO at Visibl Semiconductors. Lifelong hacker and recipient of two of Canada’s most competitive academic scholarships. Bryce is a computer engineer with experience across engineering, data, and business. He has built production software and data systems for Deloitte’s OmniaAI team, healthcare, and the public sector. His work has run in leading U.S. hospitals and supported teams globally.

Visibl Semiconductors

TierB Tier

BatchWinter 2026

Team Size2

StatusActive

LocationSan Francisco, CA, USA