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India needs 1 million semiconductor engineers.
We have spent 17 years learning how to build them.

VLSI EXPERT is India's semiconductor talent and design company — training, placing and deploying engineers into the global chip industry, and now designing silicon of our own.

The Investment Thesis
India is committing $10B+ to semiconductor manufacturing. Fabs are being built. Design centers are opening. Every one of them will need engineers who can actually use industry EDA tools — and the education system does not produce them. We do.
17
Years
Operating
5,000+
Engineers
Trained
750+
Placed in
Industry
60+
Hiring
Companies
22+
MoUs
Signed
15+
Countries
Reached
Proof of Capability

We did not just teach chip design.
We shipped a chip.

🏆 Industry First
The first private training institute in India to tape out real silicon.
Nine students — every one from a Tier 2 or Tier 3 college, none with prior tapeout experience — designed a Mini Processor and fabricated it on GlobalFoundries GF180nm in 3.5 months. Recognised by Synopsys at SNUG India. This is not a curriculum claim. It is silicon in hand.
9
Students
3.5
Months
GF180
nm Node
1st
In India
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The Opportunity

Four revenue streams.
One growing market.

Each stream feeds the next. A company that hires our graduates comes back for custom training. A company that trains with us comes back for design services. The training business is the top of a funnel that ends in high-margin engineering revenue. Click any stream to explore it.

Revenue Stream 01 Established
Training
India's leading semiconductor training organisation. Synopsys Workforce Development Partner with unlimited student access to the full EDA suite. Five centers and consistent batch cadence with growing enrolment.
5,000+ trained 5 centers Synopsys WDP
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Revenue Stream 02 Growing
Talent & Staffing
Five-model talent service for semiconductor companies. Demand driven by India's semiconductor expansion — new fabs, new design centers, and the ISM mandate for domestic chip manufacturing all pulling on the same scarce talent pool.
20+ corporates 750+ placed 5 engagement models
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Revenue Stream 03 Active
Design Services & Consultancy
Contract design, ODC, IP development and methodology consulting. Materially higher margin than training. Pipeline grows from companies that first engaged us for talent or training and returned for design capability.
ASIC & ODC IP development Tapeout consultancy
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Revenue Stream 04 Emerging
Products & IP
ChipGrad LMS live, University LMS live, EDA tooling in development, custom processor at early stage, and Innatera neuromorphic distribution. The highest-leverage stream — recurring revenue built on top of a services foundation.
2 platforms live Innatera partner Silicon IP roadmap
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Market Context

The tailwind is structural,
not cyclical.

India's semiconductor push is national policy backed by capital. The constraint is not fabs or funding — it is engineers who can operate industry tools on day one.

India Semiconductor Mission
Multi-billion-dollar government commitment to domestic fabrication and design. Fabs under construction, ATMP facilities approved, design-linked incentive schemes active. Every facility needs staffing.
The Talent Gap
India produces enormous volumes of ECE graduates and very few employable chip design engineers. University curricula run years behind industry tooling. Companies budget 3–6 months of ramp-up per fresh hire.
Global Design Centers
Every major semiconductor company operates design centers in India. Their hiring is constrained by talent supply, not headcount approval — which makes a reliable pipeline commercially valuable.
Why Incumbents Don't Fill It
Generic ed-tech lacks EDA tool access and domain depth. Universities lack industry currency. Companies do not want to run training operations. The gap is structural and defensible.
Defensibility

What takes years to replicate.

Anyone can record video lectures. Almost nobody can get a student cohort onto production EDA tools and a real foundry process.

🛠
Synopsys Workforce Development Partner
4+ years as an official Synopsys WDP with unlimited student access to the full EDA suite — IC Compiler II, PrimeTime, VCS, Verdi. Not a trial licence. This relationship takes years to earn.
Synopsys Partnership →
🏭
GlobalFoundries Fabrication MoU
A signed MoU enabling real silicon fabrication on GF180nm for student cohorts. Converts training from simulation into shipped hardware — a claim almost no competitor can make.
Corporate Partners →
🎓
Institutional Network
Active engagements across IITs, NITs, BITS, SRM and 50+ institutions, plus government relationships with CDAC, DRDO, SAC and DIAT. This is distribution that compounds.
Academic Partners →
📍
Physical Footprint
Five delivery locations — Noida, Chennai, Mysuru, Bangalore and Online — plus a US presence in Texas. Offline labs are a barrier to entry for online-only competitors.
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🤝
Hiring Relationships
60+ companies have hired VLSI EXPERT graduates. Placement history is the asset that makes the next batch enrol and the next corporate client engage.
Corporate Solutions →
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Innatera Partnership
Distribution partnership for Innatera's Pulsar neuromorphic processor — positioning VLSI EXPERT in edge AI silicon, not only in conventional digital design.
Innatera →
Track Record

17 years of compounding.

2008
Founded
VLSI EXPERT starts as a technical knowledge platform for chip design engineers — vlsi-expert.com becomes a widely-read industry resource.
2017–2020
Formal training operations
Structured placement-oriented programs launch. Noida center established. First institutional partnerships and MoUs signed.
2020–2022
Synopsys Workforce Development Partner
Official WDP status secured — students gain access to the full production EDA toolchain. First IIT workshop delivered at IIT Guwahati.
2023–2025
Multi-center expansion & government programs
Mysuru, Bangalore and Online centers scale. EDA training delivered to DRDO SAG, DRDO SAC (ISRO) and CDAC under the C2S programme. 750+ engineers placed.
2026
Silicon, products and new geography
First tapeout by a private training institute in India, recognised by Synopsys at SNUG. Chennai center opens. Innatera partnership begins. University LMS goes live.
Leadership

Built by practitioners,
not education entrepreneurs.

Puneet Mittal
Puneet Mittal
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Seventeen years inside the semiconductor industry before and alongside building VLSI EXPERT — at Synopsys, Cadence, Magma and LSI Logic. The curriculum is not adapted from textbooks; it is derived from production flows he has personally run. That distinction is why Synopsys partnered, why GlobalFoundries signed, and why 60+ companies hire the graduates.
Ex-Synopsys Ex-Cadence Ex-Magma Ex-LSI Logic
Niti Gupta
Niti Gupta
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Co-founder and CTO, responsible for curriculum architecture, technology platforms and programme delivery across every center. Where the founder brings the industry flows, Niti builds the systems that let those flows scale across five locations and thousands of students without degrading quality — the operational layer that turns expertise into a repeatable business.
Curriculum Architecture Technology Platforms Multi-Center Delivery
Where Capital Goes

What we are building next.

The services business funds itself. Capital accelerates the transition from services revenue to product and IP revenue — the higher-multiple part of the business.

01
Center Expansion
Replicate the Noida model across Tier 1 and Tier 2 cities. Chennai proved the playbook transfers. Franchise structure reduces capital intensity per location.
02
Silicon Programs
Scale ChipTapeout from one cohort to a recurring programme. Each cohort deepens the foundry relationship and produces engineers no competitor can match.
03
Product & IP
EDA tooling, LMS platforms and custom processor IP. Recurring, high-margin revenue that does not scale with trainer headcount.
04
Design Services Capacity
Convert the graduate pipeline into billable engineering capacity. Build ODC teams for clients who already trust us for talent.
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