Lightwheel
Santa Clara, California, United States, North America
Overview
Lightwheel (also referred to as Guanglun) develops data and synthetic-simulation infrastructure for physical AI, providing capabilities across human video data, synthetic simulation data, and industrial simulation evaluation. The company reports having achieved the world's largest-scale delivery in those three areas and commercial validation of its technology. Its premium data reportedly attains a resale rate of up to 10x, indicating standardized, reusable data and scenarios. Lightwheel plans to use new capital to advance R&D in core physical AI data and evaluation technologies, refine a product system for robot learning, capability assessment, and real-world deployment, and scale production of human behavior and synthetic simulation data. The company is also focused on building an open ecosystem with industry partners and expanding industrial-grade evaluation capacity.
- Total raised
- $147M
- Funding rounds
- 1
- Latest round
- Equity
- Latest activity
- Jun 2026
Industries
- Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- Autonomous Vehicles
- Infrastructure
- Robotics
- Simulation
- Software
Recent funding
Equity
Jun 2026
$147M
Team
Jonathan Stephens
Chief Evangelist
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