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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
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Recent funding

  1. Equity

    Jun 2026

    $147M

Team