CEOInterviews.AI
Start App
Try: AI strategy tariffs earnings guidance layoffs interest rates growth

Hardik Kabaria

Co-founder & CEO, Vinci

Search every verified Hardik Kabaria interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Hardik Kabaria, co-founder and CEO of Vinci, appeared in several interviews in late 2026 to discuss his company's $250 million Series B funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation, with participation from Advent, Temasek, Xora, and AMD Ventures. Vinci develops software that uses a physics-based AI model to predict heat and warping in chip designs, returning results in minutes without training on customer data. Kabaria described the product as a "continuous physics reasoning" tool that is deployed behind customer firewalls and shipped identically to all users, stating that the laws of physics are universal and therefore the company does not need access to proprietary designs. He said the software is used by more than a dozen chip and electronics companies and that the company initially focused on thermal problems in semiconductor electronics before expanding to other physics modalities. Kabaria also discussed Vinci's approach to hardware design as an ecosystem problem, arguing that a successful tool must integrate with the workflows of multiple vendors rather than serve a single company. He described physics as a "compilation layer of hardware" and said the company's goal is to make physics accessible across the design cycle, from semiconductors to satellites. In a panel at Ai4 2026, he said Vinci's model is pre-trained on physics equations and does not require fine-tuning, and he cited a reported case where the software solved a 692 million degree-of-freedom AI chip package problem in 346 seconds, a task he said conventional tools would take hours or days to complete.

Recent appearances

  • Drill Down Insider #24: Vinci CEO Hardik Kabaria

    October 09, 2026 · 📺 The Drill Down

    Vinci, a three-year-old Palo Alto company whose software predicts heat and warping in chip designs, has raised $250 million at a $1.5 billion valuation from Advent, Temasek, Xora and AMD Ventures. CEO Hardik Kabaria explains how its physics model returns answers in minutes without training on customer data, who is paying for it and how it fits alongside tools from Cadence and Synopsys. He also says which industries come next, as AI chip packages pass a kilowatt of heat. #TheDrillDown #Vinci #HardikKabaria #PhysicsAI #semiconductors #chipdesign #eda #advancedpackaging #aiinfrastructure #v…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • #TechUpdate: Vinci Raises $250M for Continuous Physics Reasoning

    October 06, 2026 · 📺 NextGenInfra

    Check out other Tech Updates on our YouTube Channel (subscribe today):    / @nextgeninfra   and check out our latest reports at: https://nextgeninfra.io/ Hardik Kabaria, CEO and Co-Founder of Vinci, joins Jim Carroll, Editor & Publisher, to discuss the company's groundbreaking approach to hardware engineering and its recent $250 million Series B funding round at a $1.5 billion valuation. Vinci addresses one of the most fundamental challenges in hardware design: understanding the physics of increasingly complex systems before they're built. Kabaria explains how Vinci's continuous physics reas…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Le Chonk, Buffet's Just Like You, TJ Parker Returns, Dylan Field Joins

    October 06, 2026 · 📺 TBPN

    00:05:10 "Digger" Review 00:06:42 AI Mods Run into Copyright Law 00:16:26 The Case Against AI Job Doom 00:28:29 Warren Buffett Discovers YouTube 00:35:08 𝕏 Timeline Reactions 00:49:42 Mistral Launches Le Chonk 00:55:19 Greg Fleming discusses his career in financial services and his role as CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management, which provides comprehensive advice to wealthy families. He explains the firm’s growth, approach to private-market investing and diversification, and use of AI to improve advisor productivity while preserving personalized client relationships. 01:17:40 TJ Parker discuss…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Simulating Reality: The Business Value of World Models (Ai4 2026)

    September 07, 2026 · 📺 Emil Protalinski

    Emil Protalinski interviews Netradyne CTO Sreekanth Annapureddy, Vinci CEO Hardik Kabaria, and Niantic Spatial CEO Inhi Cho Suh about world models at Ai4 2026 in Las Vegas. Panel description: World models allow AI to do more than just generate text, they allow it to understand cause and effect in the physical world. This panel features industry leaders discussing how they are leveraging world models to create photorealistic video content, test autonomous systems, and optimize supply chains through advanced simulation. Learn how the ability to simulate reality is becoming a critical competitiv…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • ChatGPT Made Language Reasoning Accessible. This Startup Is Doing the Same for Physics.

    July 10, 2026 · 📺 Built This Week

    This week we sat down with Hardik Kabaria, co-founder and CEO of Vinci, to demo the AI platform making physics simulation accessible to any engineer building hardware. A chip tape-out used to cost millions of dollars and take months. Thermal analysis that should take seconds was waiting days for a specialist with a PhD. Vinci is compressing all of that into minutes — and making it accessible to anyone on the design team, not just the simulation expert.We also got into why AI image and video generation still has not produced a Netflix movie, what has to change before it does, and how AI getting…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Physics Just Had Its ChatGPT Moment: Vinci’s AI Foundation Model for Simulation

    May 05, 2026 · 📺 The Future of PLM with Michael Finocchiaro

    What happens when AI stops guessing and starts solving physics? In this episode of AI Across the Product Lifecycle, Michael Finocchiaro speaks with Hardik Kabaria, co-founder and CFO of Vinci, and Andy Fine, founder of the Fine Physics Consortium, about what Vinci calls a physics intelligence layer: a foundation model for physics designed to solve complex engineering problems at manufacturing resolution. Hardik explains how Vinci is targeting heat transfer, thermo-mechanical deformation, semiconductor packaging, electronics cooling, PCB warpage, battery systems, data centers, and other hardw…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

  • Vinci CEO Hardik Kabaria: How AI and Physics Reinvents Hardware Design

    February 23, 2026 · 📺 TechVoices

    AI startup Vinci is using artificial intelligence to dramatically reshape one of the most exacting domains of engineering: physics-based hardware design. In this TechVoices interview, co-founder and CEO Hardik Kabaria explains how the company is building a “physics reasoning layer” that applies AI not to language or graphics, but to deterministic physical laws governing heat, stress, and material behavior. Key Points: -- Physics AI moves beyond generative models: Vinci is developing AI systems grounded in physical equations rather than probabilistic language modeling, enabling deterministic…

    Watch on YouTube ↗

The summary and quote tags on this profile are produced with AI assistance from verified, first-person interview transcripts, then checked by our team to confirm the speaker's identity and the accuracy of every quote. See how we verify →