ThirdAI Automation has raised $3 million in seed funding in a round co-led by Endiya Partners and Capria Ventures. The capital will be used to scale product development, expand teams in India and overseas, and accelerate deployments with equipment manufacturers and semiconductor fabs. Founded in 2024 by Dr Vivek Vishwakarma and Dr Sainyam Galhotra, ThirdAI is an India–US based company with global operations. ThirdAI builds AI-powered RCA and troubleshooting platform for semiconductor manufacturing, using causal AI to diagnose failures faster, reduce unplanned downtime, and improve yield in production-critical environments. The AI boom is pushing material complexity higher, even as fabs and toolmakers hit physical limits — driving yields down as chips grow more complex. Despite large investments in industrial analytics, existing solutions focus on prediction or anomaly detection and offer limited support when a tool goes down. Root cause analysis (RCA) in semiconductor fabs remains largely manual, requiring engineers to spend 20–40 hours per incident analysing data across multiple systems. ThirdAI addresses this gap with Causal AI, an emerging technology well-suited to strategically address crucial bottlenecks in complex manufacturing. Leveraging a causal AI–powered RCA copilot that automates the process by identifying precise cause-and-effect relationships across equipment logs, sensor data, images, and operational records, ThirdAI enables engineers to move quickly from failure to resolution. In pilot and production environments,… Read MoreStartupTalky- Business News, Insights and Stories
