Antioch, a cloud simulation platform focused on robotics and autonomous systems, has raised $8.5 million in funding as it seeks to shift development and testing away from physical environments and into software-based simulation.
The investment round was led by A* and Category Ventures, with participation from MaC Venture Capital, Abstract, Box Group, Icehouse Ventures, and angel investors including Shyam Sankar and Adrian Macneil.
Founded in May 2025 and headquartered in New York, Antioch aims to reduce reliance on costly and time-consuming real-world testing by enabling robotics teams to develop and evaluate autonomous systems in simulated environments. [Read more…] about Antioch raises $8.5 million to accelerate simulation-based development of autonomous systems