What it sells
AI tools for the chips your AI runs on
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedVerification/design engineering leaders buying EDA tools (inferred).
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Debugging waveforms is the largest verification activity; legacy debuggers are 20-year-old GUIs behind license servers, and rerunning simulations to capture waveforms wastes days.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Wave: terminal waveform debugger with verification agent traces root cause of failing signals and proves fix against simulation. WaveZip: record lossless waveforms up to 500x smaller on every run instead of rerunning.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Targets a $20B EDA industry where incumbent seats cost six figures per year; claims 100x storage cut. Own pricing not stated.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Demo-led (book a demo) plus a waitlist; Wave runs locally with the customer model key.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Summer 2026 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.