Antony Samuel

Antony Samuel
Occupation	Entrepreneur, electrical engineer
Known for	Co-founder and CEO of Artifact
Education	Georgia Institute of Technology (B.S., Electrical Engineering)

Antony Samuel is an American electrical engineer and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of Artifact, a collaborative, AI-native integrated development environment (IDE) designed for hardware engineers. Artifact was part of the Y Combinator Winter 2025 batch.

Career

Samuel holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Before founding Artifact, he accumulated approximately eight years of experience in aerospace avionics and software development. He served as Avionics Lead at Hermeus, a company developing hypersonic aircraft capable of Mach 5 speeds. In that role, he led the avionics team, building systems and infrastructure for the company's high-speed aircraft program.

Samuel co-founded Artifact with Corbin Klett. The two had previously worked together on custom Mach 5 jet engine projects during their time in the aerospace industry.

Artifact

Artifact is a collaborative, version-controlled, multi-layered electrical computer-aided design (ECAD) tool intended to modernize the way complex hardware — such as boats, robots, automobiles, aircraft, engines, reactors, and satellites — is electrically engineered. The platform serves as a single source of truth across the design, procurement, and manufacturing stages of the hardware engineering lifecycle, which the company describes as spanning design, procurement, manufacturing, integration, testing, and sustainment.

The tool organizes interdependencies between sub-systems and auto-generates artifacts such as harness drawings, pin tables, and bills of materials (BOMs) in real time. Each generated artifact is traceable back to the system's single source of truth. The company incorporates an AI copilot intended to assist hardware engineers throughout the design process, with an emphasis on verifiability.

As of its public disclosures, Artifact has raised $3.5 million in funding and reports working with more than 16 companies. The platform has processed over 116,000 wires across customer projects. The company is based in Atlanta, Georgia.