Startup Intros · Jun 2025
Reports the company’s June 2025 seed financing and lists investors including 1984 Ventures, Anorak Ventures, NewView Capital, Partech Ventures, Uncorrelated Ventures, and Y Combinator.
Faster processors for solving NP-complete problems
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Integrated Reasoning is a San Francisco-based hardware company building high-throughput processors for combinatorial optimization; it was part of Y Combinator’s Summer 2022 batch and markets IRX-HONU as a cloud-deployable, hardware-accelerated alternative for optimization workloads.
Primary product
IRX-HONU
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Computer Hardware
Sub-industry
Combinatorial optimization processors
Offices
2261 Market Street, Suite 4844, San Francisco, CA 94114
Business model
hardware
optimization-as-a-service
developer tools / API
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$2.5M
Latest round
Seed · Jun 2025
Latest amount
$1.9M
People & investors
Leadership
Founder & CEO
Founders
Co-founder
Work & culture
Public materials emphasize complex open-ended projects, working beyond the bleeding edge, and strong attention to quality; no public benefits package was found.
Compensation
No public compensation data found.
Product & market
Pricing
Public pricing is not disclosed; the product is positioned as cheaper than equivalent server-cluster optimization workloads.
Differentiators
- —High-throughput processors tailored to combinatorial optimization memory-access patterns
- —IRX-HONU is positioned as a drop-in replacement for Google OR-Tools
- —Hardware-accelerated API with cloud deployment and no hardware/firmware expertise required
- —ASIC-like performance with FPGA-like flexibility
- —Claims of 100x–10,000x speedups on optimization workloads
Technology
Google OR-Tools
HiGHS
CBC
SCIP
Rust
TypeScript
Supabase
PostgreSQL
Prisma
Vercel
Resend
FPGA-like reconfigurable fabric
ASIC-like microarchitecture
Customers
airline scheduling teams
shipping/container packing teams
logistics and routing teams
network optimization teams
operations research teams
Competitors
Google OR-Tools
HiGHS
CBC
SCIP
traditional server-cluster optimization workflows
Scale & contact
Estimated monthly visits
685
Latest news
LinkedIn · Apr 2024
David Cox announced IRX, an optimization-as-a-service platform offering unlimited free CPU-backed runtime for HiGHS, CBC, and SCIP, and said Integrated Reasoning would roll out hardware-accelerated solvers.
TechCrunch · Sep 2022
TechCrunch highlighted Integrated Reasoning as a moonshot startup building bespoke hardware to speed up optimization problems such as airline pilot scheduling and shipping-container packing.
Y Combinator
YC launch page describes the company as fast hardware for optimization problems and says it can be deployed in the cloud to replace OR-Tools-style workflows.
Y Combinator
YC company page summarizes the company’s optimization hardware, founding timeline, and target use cases in logistics, scheduling, routing, packing, and network optimization.
Jobs and careers at Integrated Reasoning
1 job at Integrated Reasoning
Customer Service Representative (Hybrid)
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Colorado Springs, CO; Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Today
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