Foundation models for hardware design, co-founded by Sebastian Thrun and Adrian Aoun
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Dulo is a San Francisco startup building foundation models for hardware design, with the stated goal of manufacturing at lightspeed. It was co-founded in 2026 by Sebastian Thrun, who founded Google's self-driving car project, and Adrian Aoun, and its website says the team includes leaders from Waymo, Google Brain and Stanford's AI Lab. The Information reported in October 2026 that Dulo closed a $130 million seed round with investors including Eric Schmidt, John Doerr, DST Global, Construct Capital and Lowercarbon Capital.