SixSense, a Singapore-based AI company that helps improve semiconductor manufacturing, has raised a new round of funding. The investment was led by Peak XV’s Surge (earlier known as Sequoia India & SEA), with support from Alpha Intelligence Capital, Febe, and others.
The firm said in a statement last Friday that with this new funding, the firm will expand into chipmaking hubs across Malaysia, Taiwan, and the United States; partner with more AI-first inspection equipment makers to deliver deeper on-the-ground AI integration.
The company will also invest in advanced research and development (R&D). Instead of using separate inspection tools, it aims to create intelligent systems where different machines work together using AI. This will help factories make better decisions quickly and across the entire production line.
According to the statement, as demand surges from AI, 5G, internet of things (IoT), and electric vehicles, chipmakers are racing to build smaller, more complex chips — with far less room for error.
“Making a single chip is one of the most demanding feats in modern manufacturing — it happens in cleanrooms thousands of times cleaner than hospital operating rooms and relies on precise coordination across hundreds of machines and thousands of ultra-sensitive steps,
“Imagine trying to build a skyscraper out of microscopic Lego blocks, where a tiny shift in one brick — invisible to the eye — can collapse the whole structure. That’s what chip factories face every day,” said Akanksha Jagwani, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SixSense.
It’s hard for factories to spot early signs of problems before they turn into big, costly issues — and that’s where AI can really help.
SixSense, started by engineers Akanksha Jagwani and Avni Agarwal, is solving a major problem in the semiconductor industry: how to turn raw production data — like images of defects and machine signals — into real-time insights that help prevent quality issues, speed up production, and increase the number of good chips made.
SixSense’s AI platform gives engineers early warnings so they can fix problems before they get worse.
It looks at huge amounts of data to find, label, and predict failure patterns. This helps factories move from checking for problems after they happen to stopping them in advance.
With SixSense, manufacturers can spot rare and tiny defects that people might miss, avoid throwing away good chips by mistake, and catch early signs of machine issues before they lead to bigger failures — all of which help improve output and efficiency.
“Unlike traditional AI tools, SixSense is hardware-agnostic, explainable, and built for engineers — not data scientists,
“Process engineers can fine-tune models using their own fab data, deploy them in under two days, and trust the results — all without writing a single line of code. That’s what makes the platform both powerful and practical,” said Avni Agarwal, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer.
SixSense already powers inspection lines at leading semiconductor manufacturers such as GlobalFoundries and JCET.
Their customers have processed 100 million chips through the SixSense system.
“We started with one step in the process — defect review — and quickly realized customers needed more.
“Now we’re building the intelligence layer for the entire production line. It’s the foundation every modern fab will need,” Akanksha added.
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