Vinci (Vinci4D, Inc.) is a Palo Alto physics-AI startup building a foundation model that simulates how hardware will behave before it is manufactured. Its system runs full manufacturing-resolution physics - thermal, thermo-mechanical and warpage analysis for advanced semiconductor packaging and 2.5D/3D chips - up to 1,000x faster than traditional finite-element tools, without meshing and without training on customer data. Founded in 2023 by Dr. Hardik Kabaria and Dr. Sarah Osentoski, the company emerged from stealth in December 2025 with $46M in total funding and has been benchmarked by over half of the world's top 20 semiconductor companies.
Akhil Seth is the CEO and founder of Advanced Engineering Services (AES), a San Jose-based engineering design, automation, and product development firm with technical centers across India. A University of Utah-trained mechanical engineer, he has consulted to Apple, NVIDIA, Intel, Dolby, Stryker, Lam Research, Thermo Fisher and others before building AES into a ~70-person multi-discipline shop spanning CAE, embedded systems, robotics and industrial automation.