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RICOS Inc., which uses AI and simulation technology to improve the efficiency and add value to product design, is pleased to announce that it has raised a total of approximately 600 million yen in July 2025 through a third-party allotment of new shares underwritten by XTech Ventures Inc., mint, DRONE FUND Inc., UT Founders’ Association (UT Founders’ Association) Fund, Yamanashi Chuo Bank Management Consulting Co., Ltd., and Hiroshima Venture Capital Co., Ltd., as well as borrowing from Hokkoku Bank Ltd.
リコスは、CAE（Computer Aided Engineering）※1とAIやハイパフォーマンス・コンピューティング技術を組み合わせることで、製造プロセスの最適化を実現するテクノロジーカンパニーです。製造現場における製品設計プロセスでは、コンピュータ上で擬似的な製品モデルを作成し、流体の流れや熱伝導など様々な物理現象をシミュレーションするCAEが多く用いられています。しかし、この手法の課題として、シミュレーションに高い精度が求められる場合、計算時間が非常に長くなってしまうことが挙げられます。.
To address this issue, RICOS developed and patented “IsoGCN,” an algorithm that combines CAE and AI to quickly predict simulation results, in 2020. RICOS subsequently launched “RICOS Lightning,” an AI-CAE software that uses the soGCN algorithm, and it is being used as a simulation tool for fluids and thermal fluids. We are currently collaborating with several automobile and machinery manufacturers. We are also currently improving the IsoGCN algorithm and developing an AI algorithm that can more accurately represent a wider range of phenomena, and plan to continuously update our currently available product, “Lightning.”
こちらもお読みください： トラスケタ、新サービス「爆速プロトン」のプロトタイプを発表
Furthermore, last year we released “RICOS Generative CAE,” software for automatically transforming and optimizing product shapes, and have already begun collaborating with several companies, including Daikure Corporation, which develops, manufactures, and sells civil engineering and construction materials, and automobile companies. This system is linked to Truck*2, our CAD kernel OSS, and we are developing a system that optimizes the structure, selection of components, placement, and shape with the aim of improving the performance and reducing the costs of existing products.
The funds raised this time will be used for the development of “リコス Lightning” and “RICOS Generative CAE”, as well as for research and development aimed at improving the accuracy of the AI algorithms that advance CAE, and for strengthening recruitment of product development engineers and BizDev personnel, including for overseas expansion.
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