Meet Akash Ramdas and Advaith Sridhar: AI startup founders who raised $9 million to discover new semiconductor materials

Discovered Materials is a startup that builds AI "scientists" to discover new materials for the semiconductor industry. It is backed by a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed, with participation from Y Combinator and Peak XV, and angels like Paul Graham, Gokul Rajaram and Thariq Shihipar.The San Francisco-based start-up is the latest, with plans to use swarms of AI agents to accelerate the discovery of semiconductor materials that could help address the growing problem of heat generated by powerful…