
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Flow Engineering, a three-year-old San Francisco startup, raised $50 million in Series B funding at a $750 million valuation to develop AI tools for hardware design. The round was led by investors from Valar Equity Partners and Atreides Management, with participation from Sequoia Capital and former Sequoia partner Roelof Botha, who also joined the company's board. Flow's AI agents automatically align CAD drawings with product requirements and testing results to address challenges in hardware design, and the company counts customers including Anduril, Rivian, Joby Aviation, and General Motors.

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

The $300 million employee tender was co-led by Wellington and T. Rowe Price.

Founded by Apache Flink veterans, the startup is taking on workflow heavyweight Temporal.
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