SixSense Raises $8.5M Funding to Power AI-Driven Semiconductor Manufacturing

SINGAPORE, Aug. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SixSense, a pioneer in AI for semiconductor manufacturing, announced a new round of funding led by Peak XV's Surge (formerly Sequoia India & SEA), with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, Febe, and others.

Founded by engineers Akanksha Jagwani and Avni Agarwal, SixSense is tackling one of the semiconductor industry's biggest challenges: turning raw production data, from defect images to equipment signals, into real-time intelligence that helps factories prevent quality issues, improve throughput, and produce more good chips from the same line.

As demand surges from AI, 5G, 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," said Akanksha Jagwani, Co-founder and CEO of SixSense. "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." ...