Architect Labs, which aims to use AI to cheapen and speed up the process of designing custom chips, raised a $24M seed led by Kindred Ventures (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/architect-labs-raises-24-million-take-broadcom-marvell-custom-chip-business-2026-06-18/"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260618/i28.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260618/p28#a260618p28" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Max A. Cherney / <a href="http://www.reuters.com/">Reuters</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/architect-labs-raises-24-million-take-broadcom-marvell-custom-chip-business-2026-06-18/">Architect Labs, which aims to use AI to cheapen and speed up the process of designing custom chips, raised a $24M seed led by Kindred Ventures</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Architect Labs said on Thursday it had raised $24 million in seed funding to build a company that will use artificial intelligence to speed and ease the design of custom chips.</p>