Sexense Sexense raises a female founder of 8.5 million dollars

Deep emerging in Singapore is called SixSense He developed a platform that works on behalf that helps semiconductor manufacturers predict and discover potential chips defects on actual production lines.

It raised $ 8.5 million in the A series A, up to its total financing to about $ 12 million. The tour led the peak xv (known as Sequoia India & Sea), with the participation of Alpha Intelligence Capital, FIBE and others.

SixSense was founded in 2018 by engineers Aknksha jagwani (CTO) and Avni Agarwal (CEO), and aims to confront a fundamental challenge in manufacturing semiconductors: converting raw production data, from images of defects to equipment signals, to actual visions that help quality factories and improve the return.

Despite the huge size of the data created on the ground of the Burundian Armed Forces, what emerged among the participating founders was a sudden shortage of intelligence in the actual time.

Akanksha brings a deep understanding of manufacturing, quality control and software automation by trying to build automation solutions for manufacturers such as Hyundai Motors, GE and LED to develop products in startups such as EMBIBE. Agarwal adds a technical experience of its time in Visa, where it built widely data analysis systems, which was subsequently protected as commercial secrets. She was interested in a strong background in mathematics, and she has long been interested in applying artificial intelligence to traditional industries outside Fintech.

Together, the duo evaluated the sectors from flying to cars before landing on semiconductors. Despite the reputation of the semiconductor industry for accuracy, the inspections remain largely manual and crushed, Agarawal told Techcrunch. She added that after talking to more than 50 engineers, it became clear that there is an important room to update how to perform quality examination.

Agarawal said that FABS today is full of information paintings, SPC plans and included inspection systems, but most data is only displayed without further analysis. “The burden of its use to make decisions still has the responsibility of engineers: (they must) patterns, investigating abnormal cases, and trace reasons. This takes a long time, and self -takes, and do not expand well with the increasing complexity of the process.”

SixSense provides engineers early warnings to address potential problems before they escalate with capabilities such as detection of defects, the radical cause analysis, and a failure.

Agarawal said the SixSense platform is specially designed to be used by operating engineers instead of data scientists. “Operations engineers can adjust the models using their FAB data, publish them in less than two days, and confidence in the results-all without writing one line of code. This makes the statute strong and practical.”

The competitive scene includes internal engineering teams that use tools such as Cognex and Halcon, inspection equipment that merge artificial intelligence in their systems, startups including Landing.AI and Robovision.

The SixSense AI platform is already used in major conductor manufacturers such as Globalfoundries and JCET, with more than 100 million slides to date. The founders said that customers reported up to 30 % of faster production sessions, an increase of 1-2 % in the return, and the reduction of 90 % in manual inspection work. The system is compatible with inspection equipment that covers more than 60 % of the global market.

Agarawal said: “Our targeted customers are wide-scale slices-including the assets, the collection of semiconductors, the OSATS providers, and the IDMS manufacturers,” said Agarawal. “We are already working with Fabs in Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and Israel, and we are now extending to the United States.”

Geopolitical tensions, especially between the United States and China, are forming them where chips are made, which leads to new manufacturing investments all over the world.

“We see FABS and Osats strongly in Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, India and the United States-and this is back winds for us. Why? Because we are already producing in the region, and that many of these new facilities have started new-without being weighed by old regimes.