Sebastian Thrun's Dulo raises $130M seed to build foundation models for hardware design
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-30
Sebastian Thrun (founder of Udacity and Google X) and Adriana Aoun co-founded Dulo, aiming to create an "Engineering Superintelligence" — foundation models for hardware design, bringing AI to the physical world.
Stanford professor Anshul Batzoglou announced he joined as CTO and co-founder, saying he has never been more excited.
Per The Information's scoop, Dulo closed a $130M seed round with a high-profile backer list: Marc Benioff, John Doerr, Eric Schmidt, Yuri Milner, Ram Shriram, plus Lowercarbon, BoxGroup, Haun Ventures, Construct Capital and others.
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