Singapore-based deep tech startup SixSense has raised $8.5 million in a Series A funding round, bringing its total capital to approximately $12 million. The round was led by Peak XV’s Surge, with participation from Alpha Intelligence Capital, FEBE, and others.
Founded in 2018 by engineers Avni Agarwal (CEO) and Akanksha Jagwani (CTO), SixSense is a female-led startup that provides an AI-powered platform designed to detect and predict chip defects on semiconductor production lines in real time. SixSense addresses a key challenge in the industry by turning large volumes of raw production data, including defect images and equipment signals, into actionable insights that help improve yield and prevent quality issues.
Jagwani has extensive experience in manufacturing and software automation, having worked with companies like Hyundai Motors and GE, and led product development at startups like Embibe. Agarwal brings technical expertise from her time at Visa, where she worked on large-scale data systems that were eventually protected as trade secrets. Her passion for applying AI to traditional industries led her to explore several sectors before focusing on semiconductors.
Despite the industry’s precision, Agarwal noted that inspection processes remain manual and fragmented. “The burden of using it for decision-making still falls on engineers: [they must] spot patterns, investigate anomalies, and trace root causes. That’s time-consuming, subjective, and doesn’t scale well with increasing process complexity,” she said.
SixSense offers early warning tools for defect detection, root cause analysis, and failure prediction. The platform is user-friendly and does not require coding, enabling process engineers to fine-tune and deploy models using their own factory data in less than two days.
SixSense solution is already used by major players like GlobalFoundries and JCET, with more than 100 million chips processed. Customers have seen up to a 30 percent increase in production speed, a one to two percent boost in yield, and a 90 percent cut in manual inspections. The platform works with equipment covering over 60 percent of the global market.
As semiconductor manufacturing expands globally due to geopolitical shifts, Agarwal believes SixSense is well-positioned. “Many of these new facilities are starting fresh — without legacy systems weighing them down. That makes them far more open to AI-native approaches like ours from day one,” she said.
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