Circuit Mind Raises $25M To Bring AI To Electronics Design
Quick Reads:
- London startup Circuit Mind raised $25 million, including an $18.5 million Series A led by Norwest, bringing its total funding to $33.4 million.
- It launched AVE, an AI tool that checks circuit board schematics against datasheets and company design rules before production.
- Customers like Emerson and Schneider Electric report cutting design time from months to weeks, though the results are company-reported.
London startup Circuit Mind has raised $25 million to bring AI to electronics design, announcing the funding Wednesday alongside a new tool that checks circuit boards for errors before they reach production.
The money includes an $18.5 million Series A led by Norwest and a previously unannounced seed round led by Third Prime, bringing total funding to $33.4 million. Differential, Blackhorn and new investor Lightscape VC also took part, and Norwest general partner Dave Zilberman joins the board.
Founded by Tomide Adesanmi and Basilio Gentile, Circuit Mind builds software for the engineers who design printed circuit boards, the boards inside critical hardware. Adesanmi argues the field has lagged behind software. “Electronics design hasn’t changed in 40 years,” he said.
Two Products, One Platform
Circuit Mind’s first product, ACE, turns a block diagram into a schematic and parts list in minutes, with options tuned for cost, size, power or supply chain availability. The new product, AVE (Agentic Verification Engine), uses a group of AI agents to check schematics against component datasheets and a company’s own design rules. Both sit on a patented, physics-based engine that tests each decision against electrical limits.
The company says customers, including Emerson and Schneider Electric, have cut design time from months to weeks and lowered parts costs by 25%. In a 2025 evaluation, Los Alamos National Laboratory recorded 4 hours and 13 minutes for one medium-difficulty design, against a stated manual baseline of 60 to 80 hours. That test covered the design platform, not AVE.
Circuit Mind plans to use the funding to extend its platform into analysis, reporting, testing and firmware, hire in sales, engineering and customer success, and open a US headquarters. The results are company-reported, and the test will be whether larger engineering teams trust AI-checked boards in high-stakes work.
