
Duality AI, founded in 2018 by Apurva Shah and Mike Taylor, provides a high-fidelity digital twin simulation platform called Falcon. This platform enables customers to test and fine-tune AI models for robotics and autonomous systems in virtual environments before real-world deployment, addressing the challenge of AI safety and predictability. Falcon integrates with Unreal Engine and supports various messaging protocols like ROS/ROS2, facilitating both open-loop synthetic data generation and closed-loop validation. The company boasts a team with over 70 patents in robotics, simulation, and visualization, and has secured significant partnerships and media mentions, including collaborations with AWS, Epic Games, and DARPA programs. Their business model likely encompasses SaaS subscriptions for their platform and potentially professional services for custom simulation development.

Duality AI, founded in 2018 by Apurva Shah and Mike Taylor, provides a high-fidelity digital twin simulation platform called Falcon. This platform enables customers to test and fine-tune AI models for robotics and autonomous systems in virtual environments before real-world deployment, addressing the challenge of AI safety and predictability. Falcon integrates with Unreal Engine and supports various messaging protocols like ROS/ROS2, facilitating both open-loop synthetic data generation and closed-loop validation. The company boasts a team with over 70 patents in robotics, simulation, and visualization, and has secured significant partnerships and media mentions, including collaborations with AWS, Epic Games, and DARPA programs. Their business model likely encompasses SaaS subscriptions for their platform and potentially professional services for custom simulation development.
Founded: Fall 2018
Headquarters: San Mateo, California
Core product: Falcon — high-fidelity digital twin simulation platform
Funding (notable): Series A — Dec 2021 (~$12.0M)
Investors: Drive Capital, AngelPad, HG Ventures, 99 Tartans, Alumni Ventures, Lemnos VC
Partnerships & contracts: AWS Partner Network integration; U.S. Army contract for anti-drone system using Falcon synthetic data
Digital twin simulation for AI, robotics, and smart systems engineering; synthetic data generation; safety and predictability for autonomous systems.
2018
Digital twin simulation
$12.0M
Dealroom lists a Dec 2021 Series A of $12.0M; Crunchbase lists the latest funding date as Dec 7, 2021 and identifies Drive Capital among investors.
“Investors include Drive Capital, AngelPad, HG Ventures, 99 Tartans, Alumni Ventures, and Lemnos VC.”