Overview
News
Technologies
Salaries
Products
People
Growth
Offices
Financials

Funding and backers

Total raised
$9M
1 round on record
Latest round
$9M
Seed · Aug 2026 · 2 mo ago
Team
11-50
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
3
+3 posted in 30 days
Backers
1
Y Combinator
The money's age
Fresh money
2 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
75/100
hiring for its size, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Aug 12 Launched on Hacker News Launch HN: Discovered Materials (YC P26) – AI agents to discover new materials Aug 10 Raised a round Seed $9M · led by Lightspeed Venture Partners Apr 2026 Went through Y Combinator 2025 Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Launched on Hacker News
162 points
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Seed Aug 2026 $9M Lightspeed Venture Partners lead justainews.com
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Overview

We introduce Discovered Materials: AI agents that discover new materials for semiconductor chips. Backed by a $9M seed round led by Lightspeed, we're also open-sourcing Material Discovery Bench.

News

News Inc42 Media 1 month ago
How Discovered Materials Is Trying To Solve The Chip Industry's Heat Problem
Discovered Materials is using AI agents to accelerate semiconductor materials discovery as India ramps up its chip manufacturing ambitions.
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News Discovered Materials 2 months ago
Research - Material Discovery Bench
Measuring frontier model ability to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry - candidates verified by DFT and attempted in a real lab.
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News TechCrunch 2 months ago
Discovered Materials is playing AI whack-a-mole to hunt cooler chips
Discovered Materials raised $9 million to fund the hunt for more novel materials to build more efficient chips.
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at Discovered Materials over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
3
Postings analysed
3
Stack modernity
85/100
Cloud & platforms
Anthropic
OpenAI
Practices & domains
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Salary insights

Compensation ranges based on this company's open jobs
Median
$250k
Typical range
$250k
Open positions
1
1 Jobs
Junior 100%
Level Jobs Median Typical range
Junior 1 $250k $250k
Highest paying role Founding Equipment Engineer $250k
Normalized to USD per year

Growth

Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
1
3 opened / 0 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
23 days
faster than 50% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~3 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Industrial Engineering
100% ▲
Actively hiring for Industrial Engineering (+3 in 30 days)

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
1
Countries
1
Busiest office
Mountain View
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San Francisco United States
HQ
Mountain View United States
1 open roles 3 posted in 90 days 10-50 est. staff $250k Avg Salary
hires for Industrial Engineering
seen since Sep 2026

Financials

Total raised
$9M
Latest round
Seed
Funding rounds
1
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Seed 2026 $9M Details