Unico Design Services

What Unico Design Services does

Unico Design Services is a privately held PCB design house headquartered in Bangalore, India, founded in 2012. The company delivers printed circuit board design services to electronics OEMs and EMS firms, covering RF, HDI, and mixed-signal multi-layer layouts with layer counts up to 36, component counts exceeding 9,000 per board, and high-speed interfaces up to 10 Gbps including DDR4, SFP, Ethernet, HDMI, and USB. Its core technical capability rests on deep, tool-agnostic proficiency across the major EDA platforms — Cadence Allegro, Altium, Mentor PADS and Expedition, Zuken CADSTAR, DX-Designer, and Concept-HDL — combined with Mentor HyperLynx for signal integrity and board-level thermal simulation. The firm claims roughly 2,500 complex board designs completed over its operating history.

The company's revenue model is professional-services oriented and quote-based, with no publicly disclosed rate cards. The core PCB Layout service is augmented by adjacent offerings — schematic capture from PDF or hand-drawn inputs with BOM extraction, signal integrity analysis, thermal analysis, quick-turn PCB fabrication (2-layer boards in 10 hours, 4-layer in 24 hours), and SMT/through-hole assembly delivered through tie-ups with major Indian assembly houses. Consulting and training are offered as additional value-added services. Customers disclosed on the company website include Cognizant, ASM, Amtek, Cabrium, Festo, Schiender, Mindtek, Saankhya, Tismo, and Vasmed — primarily mid-sized electronics OEMs and EMS firms operating in India.

Unico operates with a small team of approximately 17 employees and pursues an enterprise field-sales motion targeting the Indian electronics industry, supported by a corporate website for top-of-funnel awareness and quote-request forms for bottom-of-funnel conversion. No external funding, institutional investors, M&A activity, or leadership changes are disclosed in the available data, suggesting a founder/owner-operated structure. The firm has no disclosed patents, awards, or certifications.

Name

Unico Design Services

Legal name

Unico Design Services

Website

https://unicods.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Unico Design Services is a Bangalore-based PCB design house founded in 2012, offering professional layout, schematic, signal integrity, thermal analysis, fabrication, and assembly services to electronics OEMs and EMS firms primarily in India.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

PCB Design Services

NAICS

Other Specialized Design Services (54149), Printed Circuit Assembly (Electronic Assembly) Manufacturing (334418)

SIC

Printed Circuit Boards (3672)

akta.pro primary industry

System-Level, Multi-Physics & Package/PCB Co-Design (EDA) (HDAHAFAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

PCB Assembly (PCBA/EMS) (HDAHAOAI)

Keywords

• PCB design services
• Electronic design services
• Signal integrity analysis
• PCB fabrication
• PCB assembly

Headquarters

HQ city

Bangalore

HQ country

India

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. PCB Design Services: Core design services for RF, HDI, and mixed signal multi-layer PCB layout. Project-based professional services revenue.
2. PCB Fabrication Services: Quick-turn prototypes and mass production PCB manufacturing. Express service: 2-layer boards within 10 hours, 4-layer boards within 24 hours.
3. PCB Assembly Services: Assembly of SMT and through-hole component PCBs through tie-ups with major assembly houses.
4. Consulting and Training: Value-added services including consulting and training alongside core design business.
5. Schematic Services: Creation of schematics from PDF or hand-written drawings, BOM extraction from schematics.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Unico Design Services is a PCB design house providing professional design services for RF, HDI, and mixed-signal multi-layer printed circuit boards. The company offers a unified service suite centered on PCB Layout and supported by Schematic design, Signal Integrity analysis, Thermal Analysis, quick-turn Fabrication, and Assembly, enabling customers to move from design through prototyping to production.

Product overview

Unico Design Services is a PCB design house offering a unified suite of services centered on PCB Layout as the core offering, supplemented by Schematic design, SI Analysis (Signal Integrity), Thermal Analysis, Fabrication, and Assembly. The product portfolio is structured as a one-stop solution where the core PCB Layout service is integrated with value-added services including quick-turn fabrication and assembly, enabling customers to move from design through prototyping to production.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PCB Layout Professional PCB layout design service for high-speed digital, RF, power, and mixed-signal multi-layer boards. Supports interfaces such as DDR4, SFP, Ethernet, HDMI, USB; controlled impedance; up to 36 layers; fine pitch BGA down to 0.37mm; and Micro Vias, Blind Vias, Buried Vias, and backdrill technologies. Targeted at electronics OEMs requiring complex PCB designs.
• Schematic Schematic creation service that converts PDF or hand-written drawings into schematic format, with Bill of Materials (BOM) extraction from schematics. For electronics design teams needing formalized schematics.
• SI Analysis Signal Integrity and EMI analysis service including pre-route and post-route SI analysis, reflection waveform analysis, crosstalk analysis, eye diagram analysis, and multi-board analysis using Mentor HyperLynx. For high-speed digital and RF PCB projects.
• Fabrication Quick-turn PCB prototype fabrication supporting 2-layer boards in 10 hours and 4-layer boards in 24 hours, with scalability to mass production. For customers needing rapid PCB prototyping.
• Thermal Analysis Board-level thermal design, simulation and analysis with PCB data import through IDF files, component junction and case temperature computation, and thermal profile generation. For electronics projects with thermal management requirements.
• Assembly Electronic manufacturing services providing comprehensive and cost-effective assembly of SMT and through-hole component PCBs, delivered through partnerships with major assembly houses in Bangalore. For OEMs needing prototyping-to-production assembly.

Quantifiable outcome

• 2-layer boards delivered within 10 hours (express service)
• +5 more outcomes

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Major Assembly Houses (unspecified)coreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorTie-up with all major Assembly houses in India to meet current and future demands of Electronics Industries. Assembly houses enable comprehensive Electronic Manufacturing and Design Services, supporting both quick-turn sample and mass production requirements for customers within and outside India.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• MacroFab: US-based PCB fabrication and assembly services platform with quick-turn prototyping capabilities — directly comparable on the PCB prototyping-to-production service model Unico offers through its assembly-house partnerships.
• JLCPCB: Shenzhen-headquartered low-cost, high-volume PCB fabrication and assembly service with strong quick-turn capability — competes with Unico's fab/assembly services globally and on speed/price.
• PCBWay: China-based quick-turn PCB prototyping, fabrication and assembly provider offering 24-hour express options — overlaps Unico's fabrication/assembly value-added services and competes for the same rapid-turn PCB customer base.
• Mistral Solutions: India-based embedded electronics design services firm headquartered in Bangalore — directly comparable India location, design-services model and electronics customer base to Unico.
• Sierra Circuits: US-based quick-turn PCB prototyping and high-mix manufacturing house — operates the same 'design-to-fab' value proposition targeting complex, time-sensitive PCB programs.
• Sunstone Circuits: US-based PCB prototyping and fabrication services provider with a focus on quick-turn and small-volume production — closely mirrors Unico's prototype-to-production service suite for enterprise customers.
• Tessolve: India-headquartered semiconductor and embedded design services company with broad PCB/electronic design offerings — competes for the same Indian and global enterprise design-services mandates.

Broad incumbents

• Altium (Renesas Electronics): EDA software vendor behind the Altium Designer tool Unico uses — competes indirectly through push-down PCB design services and cloud-enabled design automation that commoditizes portions of Unico's offering.
• Cyient: Global engineering services and design house with PCB layout, embedded and turnkey hardware design capabilities — broader services portfolio but directly competes for Indian enterprise hardware design RFPs.
• Cadence Design Systems: Global EDA software giant whose Allegro/OrCAD tools Unico actively uses — competes indirectly via its Cadence-owned PCB design services arm and represents the platform layer above Unico's services.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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