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Dulo, the San Francisco startup founded by Sebastian Thrun and Adrian Aoun, has raised $130 million in seed funding from investors including Eric Schmidt, John Doerr and DST Global, The Information reported Friday.
Aoun describes the goal as "building foundation models for hardware design": automating engineering design and validation, and leaving manufacturing to others.
Thrun, who led Stanford's AI lab and Google's self-driving project, first showed Dulo at the Actuate conference in August.
No , lead investor, customers or product specifications have been disclosed.
It joins &Truth's $70 million seed this week in a run of nine-figure first rounds for teams applying models to engineering work.
Sebastian Thrun's Dulo raises a $130 million seed to build foundation models for hardware design
Dulo, the San Francisco startup founded by Sebastian Thrun and Adrian Aoun, has raised $130 million in seed funding from investors including Eric Schmidt, John Doerr and DST Global, The Information reported Friday. Aoun describes the goal as "building foundation models for hardware design": automating engineering design and validation, and leaving manufacturing to others. Thrun, who led Stanford's AI lab and Google's self-driving project, first showed Dulo at the Actuate conference in August.
No valuation, lead investor, customers or product specifications have been disclosed. It joins &Truth's $70 million seed this week in a run of nine-figure first rounds for teams applying models to engineering work. SourcesBC
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- BThe Information on Dulo's $130 million seed (X)x.com
- CWaymo pioneer Thrun's hardware-design startup Dulo raises $130M seed (Dealroom)dealroom.co
This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of October 31st 2026.