Startupsby GlyphDiscovered Materials
Active · AI scientists to discover materials for the semiconductor industry.
Why it ranks
How the rank works- went through YCProgram · this site+4
- team of 4Team size · YC's directory+3.6
- hiringHiring · Titles (titles.fru.dev), YC+2
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Competitors
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Active | YCF26 | |
| AI | Active | YCS25 | |
| AI, Data | Active | YCF26 | |
| AI | Active | YCS26 | |
| AI | Active | YCW26 |
Adjacent
| Company | Category | Status | Program |
|---|---|---|---|
| AI | Not stated | SPC2021 | |
| AI, Data | Active | YCS23 | |
| AI | Active | YCW19 | |
| AI | Active | YCX25 | |
| AI | Not stated | speedrunSR007 |
Also from X26 in AI
All of X26Founders
- Akash RamdasFounder/CEO
- Advaith SridharFounder/CTO
About Discovered Materials
We use AI to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry - specifically datacenters and fabs. Finding novel materials today takes 10+ years of lab work. We aim to compress that timeline to months, using a swarm of AI agents. Akash completed his PhD at Stanford on material discovery for semiconductors. The materials he discovered for nanoscale interconnects have been adopted into the roadmaps of Intel and TSMC. Advaith was the founding applied scientist at Persona AI (acquired by Luma Labs), where he built long horizon autonomous agents for major telecom and crypto companies. Power consumption and heat release from AI chips is doubling every year. The semiconductor industry needs new materials to keep this exponential going - Discovered Materials will help find them.
- YC batch
- X26 · Spring 2026
- Status, per YC
- Active
- Category
- AI
- Team size
- 4
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- Founded
- 2026
- Checked
- 13h ago
YC tags: Semiconductors, AI
Changes seen
Team went from 2 to 4 people.
Discovered Materials: questions
Which YC batch was Discovered Materials in?
Discovered Materials was in Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch (X26).
Is Discovered Materials still active?
Y Combinator lists Discovered Materials as active.
Who founded Discovered Materials?
Discovered Materials's founders, as listed on its YC page: Akash Ramdas (Founder/CEO), Advaith Sridhar (Founder/CTO).
Where is Discovered Materials based?
Discovered Materials lists San Francisco, CA, USA as its location on YC's directory.