Our first office in India lands two weeks after TYLsemi’s $43M launch, and it’s a bet on where AI infrastructure gets built next.
Two weeks ago, TYLsemi™ emerged from stealth. Last week we opened the next chapter of that story here in Bengaluru — our first office in India, and one of the most important bets we’ll make as a company.
Momentum: From Stealth to Scale
On July 14, TYLsemi announced the closing of an oversubscribed $43 million early-stage funding round, led by Matter Venture Partners with participation from Viola Ventures, GHOVC, Egis Technology, and strategic investors across the global semiconductor and AI infrastructure ecosystem. We introduced ourselves as the first chiplet platform company delivering a full portfolio across connectivity, power, and memory, paired with an end-to-end path to custom AI silicon.
That portfolio is taking shape now: TYL.IO for high-bandwidth connectivity, TYL.Power for in-package voltage regulation, TYL.Mem for memory connectivity, and TYL.Forge, our full-stack custom silicon platform. TYL.IO and TYL.Power chiplet samples reach qualified customers in 2027 through our partnership with TSMC, and we’re already engaging Tier-1 customers on TYL.Forge.
The backdrop is a market moving fast: the AI accelerator market is on track to reach $604 billion by 2033, with custom silicon XPUs as its fastest-growing segment. Chiplet-based design isn’t optional at that scale and building the team to deliver it is exactly why we’re in Bengaluru now.
India already anchors a huge share of the world’s silicon talent and is in the middle of one of the largest AI infrastructure buildouts on the planet.
- Talent: India is home to nearly 20% of the world’s chip design engineers, concentrated in hubs like Bengaluru — exactly the depth of engineering talent a chiplet company needs to scale design, packaging, and integration work.
- Capital: India is on pace to draw as much as $200 billion in data center investment in the coming years, with Google committing $15 billion, Microsoft $17.5 billion, and Amazon $48 billion to AI and cloud infrastructure in the country.
- Policy: India’s Semiconductor Mission is actively building the domestic pipeline this moment requires, expanding chip-design training to 500 institutions nationwide.
Every one of those data points describes the same gap: demand for AI infrastructure is scaling faster than the supply of production-ready silicon building blocks to build it with. That’s the gap TYLsemi exists to close — and India is where the talent to close it and the demand for it are both concentrated.
From Zero to Team
This isn’t a satellite office. We’re building a real engineering base here, and we intend to grow this team meaningfully over the next year as we bring TYL.IO and TYL.Power toward production and scale TYL.Forge engagements with lead customers.
We’re hiring across silicon design, packaging, and systems engineering in Bengaluru. If you want to help build a chiplet company from its first ten hires, visit tylsemi.ai/careers.
The Culture We’re Building, Not Just the Team
I’ve opened offices before, but never one quite like this. A handful of people, and seats to spare. Empty desks, a whiteboard barely touched. A small group betting their careers on an idea gives you real assurance, but it also hands you a huge responsibility. That’s exactly what excites me, we get to build something from scratch, and the first ten people we hire here set the tone for the next hundred.
Most of us, at some point in a regular job, have imagined a better way of doing things, a culture we wished we could just build ourselves, if only we had the chance. I was one of those people, and that’s a big part of why I joined this company: to build the kind of culture I’d always looked for and rarely found. Open. Collaborative. People first.
It’s easy to say “people first.” It’s harder to practice it when all you can see is how to win your first customer and execute to plan. But that’s exactly the moment it matters most. Early hires are co-authoring the culture. Building real collaboration across time zones, not just status updates passed back and forth. And owning hard problems together, the kind only solved when people trust each other enough to say “I don’t know” or “I think we’ve got this wrong.”
That ties to a value we hold close across the whole company: thinking holistically. Chiplets only work when architecture, packaging, and integration come together as one system. Teams aren’t so different — a design team, an operations function, a leadership group scattered across geographies. It only works when we treat it as one system, pulling toward the same outcome.
We talk a lot at TYLsemi about delivering real silicon — not concepts, not half-finished solutions, but production-ready outcomes. The same bar applies to team-building. It’s easy to talk about culture. It’s harder to deliver a team that lives it, under real deadlines, with real customers waiting on real silicon.
If that sounds like the kind of place you’d want to help build from the ground up, we’d love to talk. We’re just getting started.