Startup Aims to Let AI Develop Device Software Without Physical Prototypes

Simantic, a four-person Y Combinator F26 startup founded in 2025, is building simulations that would let AI agents develop device software without physical prototypes, early test versions of hardware. A job posting says the platform uses SPICE and Xyce, circuit-simulation software. The company is still hiring a Lead Simulation Researcher and has published no accuracy results.