co-founder of @simantic YC F26 | washed waterloo intern 🇨🇦
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Joined July 2022
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WE UP!
Simantic is the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware at the speed of software.
Frontier AI models have made generating firmware code cheap and effortless, but testing still depends on manual hardware debugging, expensive equipment, and software designed more than a decade ago. Simantic is modernizing firmware testing with simulation built for the era of coding agents.
w/ @ycombinator @shong0504 @enough_ahnaf
Last october, I thought @shong0504 was tripping, that simulation is not useful in firmware development, that AI agents can't really code, etc etc.
I was all negative and being the engineer, always looking for holes in the solution. How can just 2 barely new grads tackle giants in the industry and how can we do it better? There was an endless amounts of reason to fail and to think it wouldn't work.
But it only takes one question, "Why not me?". The realization that only you care enough to solve your problem is what it took to give me the courage to take the step.
Then come April, I took a bet on ourselves and time flew.
Now this october... all those doubts last year were are wrong.
Try simantic.com if you don't believe. if it fails now let us know, because it won't fail tomorrow.
We have changed how firmware is tested forever.
Last October, I started @simantic because I saw firsthand how embedded and firmware engineers were struggling to take advantage of the recent developments in frontier AI models.
In software, AI models are able to generate the code, run testing in simulation, and deploy to production, end-to-end without human input other than the first prompt. In firmware and embedded software, AI can generate great code, but any validation work is left to the engineer to run manually, on physical devboards or HIL setups.
We're building the simulation layer to solve that. We're giving AI the visibility into hardware that it needs to fully close the gap in fully autonomous hardware development, without the physical bottleneck.
If you're part of a firmware or embedded team looking for a better and faster way to test your code in simulation, email us at [email protected]
Ahnaf Shahriar retweeted
Last October, I started @simantic because I saw firsthand how embedded and firmware engineers were struggling to take advantage of the recent developments in frontier AI models.
In software, AI models are able to generate the code, run testing in simulation, and deploy to production, end-to-end without human input other than the first prompt. In firmware and embedded software, AI can generate great code, but any validation work is left to the engineer to run manually, on physical devboards or HIL setups.
We're building the simulation layer to solve that. We're giving AI the visibility into hardware that it needs to fully close the gap in fully autonomous hardware development, without the physical bottleneck.
If you're part of a firmware or embedded team looking for a better and faster way to test your code in simulation, email us at [email protected]
Simantic is the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware at the speed of software.
Frontier AI models have made generating firmware code cheap and effortless, but testing still depends on manual hardware debugging, expensive equipment, and software designed more than a decade ago. Simantic is modernizing firmware testing with simulation built for the era of coding agents.
w/ @ycombinator @shong0504 @enough_ahnaf
Ahnaf Shahriar retweeted
Today we’re launching @vorelios (YC F26)!
We’re a research lab building AI that can engineer anything. Models that predict a design’s behavior in seconds and use those predictions to invent and improve designs autonomously. 🧵
w/ @krish_k07 , @ycombinator
vorelios.com
Ahnaf Shahriar retweeted
We just launched! So hyped about this!
Simantic is the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware at the speed of software.
Frontier AI models have made generating firmware code cheap and effortless, but testing still depends on manual hardware debugging, expensive equipment, and software designed more than a decade ago. Simantic is modernizing firmware testing with simulation built for the era of coding agents.
w/ @ycombinator @shong0504 @enough_ahnaf
Ahnaf Shahriar retweeted
Simantic is the simulation layer that lets engineers and AI agents test and validate firmware at the speed of software.
Frontier AI models have made generating firmware code cheap and effortless, but testing still depends on manual hardware debugging, expensive equipment, and software designed more than a decade ago. Simantic is modernizing firmware testing with simulation built for the era of coding agents.
w/ @ycombinator @shong0504 @enough_ahnaf
Every elected official should be required to play a city sim game.
Let em get a city to like 1million population so they can understand what it actually takes 🤣
I don't celebrate halloween but I will say the time of halloween 2025 was a rollercoaster that has changed my life!
heres how I got into @ycombinator
Maybe there was something in the candy I got from big E
Wait thats crazy nothings new under the sun
fun fact: subvocal recognition is how @WisprFlow started, before pivoting to speech-to-text in late ~2024
The wave of harder tech launches for YC companies are happening and it's getting crazier and crazier!
But a reminder that most of these started pre YC and even with the pressure of YC took until this last ish month to launch something. Actual Hard tech.
Ion fr changed my life from highschool to Uni
TIL the YouTuber Not Just Bikes is a Waterloo EE grad
And came to Waterloo this summer, just to ride the iON
I’ve figured out how to solve brain drain: more trains in Waterloo!!
m.youtube.com/watch?v=S19ag-…
