Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation

In Brief

Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50 cardinal Series B circular astatine a $750 cardinal valuation from immoderate big-name investors, the institution announced connected Wednesday.

The circular was co-led by Antonio Gracias of Valar Equity Partners (best known for its investments successful Elon Musk’s companies, peculiarly SpaceX) and Gavin Baker of Atreides Management (a hedge money that has besides backed Musk’s companies and others similar AI chipmaker Cerebras). Sequoia Capital, which led Flow’s Series A circular past October, besides participated, arsenic did erstwhile Sequoia spouse Roelof Botha, who invested arsenic an idiosyncratic investor. Botha has joined Flow’s board, too.

Three-year-old, San Francisco-based Flow is is tackling the difficulties of hardware plan by offering AI agents that automatically align CAD drawings with merchandise requirements, simulation results, and different testing.

It names Anduril, Rivian, Joby Aviation, General Motors PPU (a associated task betwixt General Motors and TWG Motorsports), RV Tech (a Rivian and Volkswagen’s associated venture), Stoke Space, and others, arsenic customers.

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