$25m · Series A · Software · London, UK
Circuit Mind co-founders Tomide Adesanmi and Basilio Gentile. Image: Circuit Mind.
London-based Circuit Mind, which builds AI software for electronics engineering teams, has announced $25m in new financing. The package includes an $18.5m Series A led by Norwest, with existing investors Third Prime, Differential and Blackhorn and new investor Lightscape VC participating, plus a previously unannounced seed round led by Third Prime. Circuit Mind says the disclosure takes total funding to $33.4m.
The company will use the capital to extend its platform across more of the electronics-design lifecycle, grow sales, engineering and customer-success teams, and establish a US headquarters for North America. Norwest general partner Dave Zilberman will join the board.
Design and verification move into one workflow
Circuit Mind is building software around the work between a hardware brief and a manufacturable circuit board. Its ACE application turns a block diagram into a schematic, bill of materials and supporting analysis, while evaluating component choices against cost, size, power and supply-chain constraints. The platform connects with existing ECAD tools and uses a customer’s approved parts, design rules and engineering context rather than treating each design as a generic prompt.
The newly launched AVE product adds verification. It checks schematics against component datasheets, application notes and internal review rules, then runs a quality-assurance pass before presenting findings to engineers. That makes the commercial proposition broader than faster schematic generation: Circuit Mind is trying to reduce the design-review errors that surface only after a board is built, when a respin can add weeks to a programme. Keeping engineers responsible for the final decision also gives customers a clearer adoption path than handing an entire hardware design to an unconstrained model.
Enterprise evidence shifts the test to deployment
Circuit Mind says teams at Emerson and Schneider Electric are already using the platform. Its announcement reports that customers have cut design time from months to weeks and reduced bill-of-materials cost by 25%; these are company claims. In a peer-reviewed case study cited by the company, Los Alamos National Laboratory engineers completed a design in four hours that had been expected to take two weeks. Schneider Electric separately said early evaluations showed more than 90% less effort for architecture exploration.
Those results explain why the round funds customer success as well as product development. Enterprise electronics teams bring different component libraries, procurement constraints and review standards, so each deployment has to capture local engineering context without becoming a bespoke services project. Expanding the common data and verification layer can make later rollouts more repeatable; the planned US headquarters gives Circuit Mind a closer base for proving that model with North American customers.
