
Founded by industrial R&D experts, Semiotic AI is a startup that builds autonomous decision-making agents for decentralized markets. Combining artificial intelligence and advanced cryptography, Semiotic AI brings secure and verifiable automation to web3. Prior to starting Semiotic, the founders had leadership and senior roles at IBM Research, Sandia National Laboratories, and Samsung. They have authored 150+ papers and have been granted 100+ patents. Semiotic invented the world’s most efficient Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm which is required for accelerating modern cryptography. Semiotic’s research has been supported by NSF and DARPA.

Founded by industrial R&D experts, Semiotic AI is a startup that builds autonomous decision-making agents for decentralized markets. Combining artificial intelligence and advanced cryptography, Semiotic AI brings secure and verifiable automation to web3. Prior to starting Semiotic, the founders had leadership and senior roles at IBM Research, Sandia National Laboratories, and Samsung. They have authored 150+ papers and have been granted 100+ patents. Semiotic invented the world’s most efficient Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm which is required for accelerating modern cryptography. Semiotic’s research has been supported by NSF and DARPA.
Core focus: Autonomous decision-making agents, cryptographic primitives, and scalable Web3 infrastructure
Notable products: LikWid (automated liquidation), GraphTally (micropayments), dynamic query pricing
Team background: Founders from IBM Research, Sandia NL, Samsung; extensive publications and patents
Funding: Multiple rounds including grants; latest Seed on 2022-11-01; total funding reported ~67,860,000 USD
Decentralized finance and Web3 infrastructure focusing on automated decision agents, cryptographic performance, and market-facing protocols.
Web3 / Blockchain Infrastructure
Latest announced Seed round (per provided evidence)
Multiple rounds including grant support (NSF, DARPA mentioned as research support)
“Institutional backers include Leonis Capital and IVC; grant support from the U.S. National Science Foundation”