Company Spotlight: Chiplytics Secures the Chip Supply Chain

Chiplytics is building a quality-assurance layer for critical electronic components. The company combines sourcing, risk assessment, inspection, reporting, and delivery so manufacturers can make higher-confidence procurement decisions when authorized channels cannot supply a part on time.

Co-founders Steven Dourmashkin and Stephen DiBartolomeo are commercializing Power Spectrum Analysis developed at Sandia National Laboratories. With a Seattle engineering base and a new inspection lab in Bellport, New York, Chiplytics is turning national-lab science into an operating system for a practical supply-chain problem: evidence often arrives too late, after a component has already moved toward production.

Why Chiplytics Matters Now

Semiconductor shortages do more than delay factories. They change where buyers look for inventory. When an authorized distributor quotes a lead time measured in months, an independent broker may have the right component now. That option can keep a production line moving, but it also moves more authentication and quality risk onto the buyer.

Chiplytics is designed for that gap. A procurement team submits the part and quantity it needs. The company evaluates supplier and component risk, proposes a test plan, shows the part cost and verification fee separately, performs the approved inspection, and returns documented results. The company also describes a one-year financial guarantee after it verifies the parts.

The idea is larger than adding another test near the end of procurement. Chiplytics is trying to connect the commercial decision and the technical evidence inside one workflow. That makes verification part of how a component is bought, not an exception that has to be arranged after urgency has already narrowed the buyer's options.

From Sandia Science to a Commercial Platform

Chiplytics' technical foundation is Power Spectrum Analysis, a nondestructive electrical technique created at Sandia National Laboratories. PSA captures a component's electrical pseudosignature, allowing parts or lots to be compared for meaningful differences in their behavior.

The founders were matched with Sandia's technology and researchers through the Department of Energy's Emerging Tech Startup Studio in 2020. Sandia says it supported prototype validation in 2021. Chiplytics later signed a commercial license and converted the lab method into a production-ready PSA System.

Its Micro-Inspection Platform extends that work with machine vision and socketless robotic probes. Components can be identified, aligned, contacted, and tested without a custom socket for every package type. The platform runs PSA alongside other electrical measurements, while software manages acquisition and stores results locally or in a secure cloud database.

The distinction matters. Good laboratory science does not become useful infrastructure simply because it produces an accurate result once. It has to become repeatable, operable, and fast enough to fit the volume and variety of real procurement. Chiplytics has spent its early years working on that translation.

Building Verification Into Distribution

The next stage is happening in Bellport. Chiplytics opened a microelectronics inspection laboratory inside Quality King's 600,000-square-foot distribution center, where testing can happen closer to sourcing and shipment.

The Verified by Chiplytics service combines machine-vision inspection with electrical analysis and supplemental methods. The company says every unit can be imaged so markings, part numbers, and date or lot codes can be checked. Reports preserve the inspection record, and AS6171-aligned methods can include X-ray imaging, solderability verification, decapsulation, and die inspection.

That wording is important. The methods are described as AS6171-aligned; the available sources do not establish that the Bellport lab itself is AS6171-accredited. The more useful operating signal is the model: inspection is being placed beside distribution rather than treated as a disconnected destination.

GeekWire reported that the company recently handled an order for 50,000 parts. For a lot that large, manual review or limited sampling can leave an uncomfortable distance between the number of parts purchased and the number directly examined. Automation gives Chiplytics a path to increase coverage while keeping a record connected to the lot.

The Team Commercializing the System

Co-founder and CEO Steven Dourmashkin leads product, software, and operations. He previously built Specdrums, a consumer-electronics startup acquired by Sphero, giving him experience moving hardware from prototype through production.

Co-founder and President Stephen DiBartolomeo leads sales, procurement, and capital. His background includes service as a Navy cryptologic warfare officer and work in national-security investing. CTO Connor Dempsey, PhD leads engineering, quality, and R&D after work spanning satellite test systems and semiconductor materials research. Devon Richman, PhD, leads the Bellport lab as VP of Operations, bringing experience in counterfeit-part testing, reliability, failure analysis, and laboratory assessment.

The leadership mix reflects the company's task. Chiplytics has to connect semiconductor physics, automated hardware, quality systems, procurement economics, and national-security requirements. A gap in any one of those disciplines can turn a promising inspection method into a tool that is difficult to deploy.

Hiring Shows a Two-Site Buildout

Chiplytics' current careers page lists two openings. A part-time Semiconductor Test Engineer in Bellport would support incoming inspection, visual and electrical testing, approved procedures, and test reports. A full-time Embedded Systems Engineer in Seattle would work on firmware, hardware interfaces, and the real-time systems behind the inspection platforms.

Two roles do not prove broad expansion, but their placement is revealing. The company is adding capacity on both sides of its model: the laboratory operation that processes components and the engineering operation that develops the machines. That is the kind of hiring signal worth watching because it maps directly to the company's next execution risks.

What to Watch Next

Chiplytics recently paired $2.5M in Seed financing with a $2M Air Force Tactical Funding Increase award. The capital gives the company more room to build out the Bellport lab, hire testing and engineering talent, and advance the inspection platform. It does not settle the larger commercial questions.

The next proof points are repeatable throughput across more component types, evidence that buyers return after initial orders, and broader adoption of PSA within inspection standards and quality systems. Public sources do not disclose Chiplytics' revenue, valuation, profitability, or complete customer roster.

The company's thesis is still compelling because it puts verification at the moment a buyer can act on it. Semiconductor supply chains will continue to trade off speed, availability, and assurance. Chiplytics is building the machinery and workflow to make that last variable less negotiable.