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BoolSi raises $6M to compile ordinary code into custom chips

$6M. BoolSi just closed seed to democratize chip design—turning code into custom hardware without years of digital-logic training.

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Why it matters

AI infrastructure play: automating hardware compilation could accelerate custom-chip development for AI workloads, but the core business (compiler for FPGAs) is only tangentially AI-adjacent. Relevant to compute infrastructure investors, less so to pure AI model/product builders.

The key facts

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  1. BoolSi raised $6M seed funding

  2. Company building compiler to convert software into custom hardware (FPGAs)

  3. Removes barrier of requiring digital-logic design expertise

  4. Co-founder/CEO: Mihailo Isakov

  5. Target: field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)

  6. Compiler converts ordinary software code into custom hardware

  7. Target: FPGAs (field-programmable gate arrays)

  8. Pitch: eliminates need for years of digital-logic training in chip design

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Publisher excerpt: Chip-design startup BoolSi Inc. today announced it has raised $6 million in seed funding to build a compiler that turns ordinary software into custom hardware, doing away with the years of digital-logic training that chip design has always demanded. Co-founder and Chief Executive Mihailo Isakov…
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