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Dulo is a stealth San Francisco AI engineering startup co-founded in 2026 by Sebastian Thrun and Adrian Aoun, building foundation models for hardware design.
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Dulo
Dulo is a stealth San Francisco AI engineering startup co-founded in 2026 by Sebastian Thrun and Adrian Aoun, building foundation models for hardware design.
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United States
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Enigma
Cross-embodiment robotics foundation models
Seed · $71M · 2026-07
$71M - General Intuition
Trains "large action" foundation models and general-purpose agents with spatiotemporal reasoning capabilities on action-labeled gameplay footage, and transfers them to real-world embodied systems such as robots, drones and autonomous vehicles.
Undisclosed · $650M · 2026-09 · Valuation $6.2B
$650MValuation $6.2B - P-1 AI
AI engineers for industrial/physical systems; flagship Archie is agentic AI for hardware engineering (mechanical, electrical, thermal, fluids, systems design), positioned as a junior engineer
Series A · $73M · 2026-07
$73M
China
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- LiberAI
Embodied AI foundation models and physical world models, covering UMI human data-collection hardware, data systems and embodied large-model training
Series A · $69M · 2026-09
$69M - Delta Intelligence
Native general-purpose Humanoid Foundation Models (HFMs) for whole-body loco-manipulation, plus in-house data collection devices for a data loop, to deploy embodied AI in real industrial and home settings.
Angel · 2026-07
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Large physical models (LPM) for robotics and autonomous driving
Angel · 2026-09 · Valuation $500M
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Europe
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Genesis AI
Builds general-purpose robots and robot foundation models
Seed · $605M · 2025-07
$605M - F13
Trains foundation models that natively generate precise, controllable vector graphics, producing editable charts, infographics, diagrams, maps and brand layouts from text, images or existing graphics
Pre-Seed · $5M · 2026-09
$5M - Machenta
Foundation models for robots focused on "instant robot learning": performing a new task after a single demonstration
Seed · 2026-10
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Other / unspecified
BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Partly
Foundation models and catalog matching for auto parts
Series B · $50M · 2026-06 · Valuation $500M
$50MValuation $500M - NeoSpace AI
In-house foundation model (LDM) and AI solutions for large enterprises such as financial institutions, covering credit scoring, CRM and anti-fraud
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Multimodal foundation world models and physics simulation environments, providing scalable interactive training grounds for robots and other embodied agents
Seed · 2026-08
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