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title: "Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M in four months"
description: "A startup that uses AI to design chips is now valued at $4 billion. Its founders created Google's AlphaChip."
url: https://kurddevelopers.com/en/news/ricursive-intelligence-335-million-4-billion
language: en # English
type: news
published: 2026-02-16T17:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-11-01T23:21:04.000Z
author: "Osamah Ismail"
author_url: https://kurddevelopers.com/en/author/1
section: "Startups"
tags: ["Ricursive Intelligence","chips","AI","Nvidia","Sequoia"]
sources: ["TechCrunch","Ricursive Intelligence"]
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# Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M in four months

> A startup that uses AI to design chips is now valued at $4 billion. Its founders created Google's AlphaChip.

![Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini. Image: Ricursive Intelligence](https://kurddevelopers.com/uploads/2026/11/ricursive-intelligence-founders-e931606b.webp)

## What does Ricursive do?

Ricursive Intelligence uses AI to design chips. Designing a chip by hand can take a year or more; the founders say their approach can produce a high-quality chip layout in about six hours.

## The funding

- Seed: $35 million led by Sequoia.
- A few months later, Series A: $300 million led by Lightspeed, at a $4 billion valuation.
- Total: $335 million in about four months.

Nvidia (through NVentures) and DST are also investors.

## The founders

- Anna Goldie, CEO.
- Azalia Mirhoseini, CTO.

Both worked at Google Brain and were early employees at Anthropic. They created AlphaChip, the AI system used to design three generations of Google's TPU chips.

## The goal

Goldie says they could deliver "almost a 10x improvement in performance per total cost of ownership." Target customers are chip makers such as AMD and Intel.

**Sources:** TechCrunch, Ricursive Intelligence

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Published by [Kurd Developers](https://kurddevelopers.com/) on 2026-02-16. Cite as: “Ricursive Intelligence raised $335M in four months”, Kurd Developers, https://kurddevelopers.com/en/news/ricursive-intelligence-335-million-4-billion