we're excited to share that trace has been backed by founders inc (f.inc).
f.inc backs bold founders building at the frontier. their support validates what we've been building — that hardware design is ready for the same kind of AI-native tooling that's transformed software.
this doesn't change what we're doing. it accelerates it. we're using this to move faster on the product, expand the team, and get trace into the hands of more hardware teams.
we started trace because PCB design is stuck in the past. the tools are decades old, the workflows are manual, and iteration cycles are painfully slow. we're changing that — AI agents that handle the full design workflow, from concept to manufactured board. what used to take weeks now takes hours.
more to come. we're just getting started.