Archetype AI, the Physical AI company, announced $35 million in Series A funding led by IAG Capital Partners and Hitachi Ventures, with participation from new and existing investors including Bezos Expeditions, Venrock, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Ventures, Systemiq Capital, E12 Ventures, Higher Life Ventures, and others. Archetype AI is also introducing new tools to build and deploy Physical Agents that sense, understand, and act in real-world environments.
“Archetype AI is refining and defining the full stack of Physical AI, creating scalable solutions that operate in the real world, not just on screens or in simulations,” said Dennis Sacha, Founding Partner at IAG Capital Partners. “This team is building a category-defining company that will transform how humans and agents interact with everything from edge devices to critical infrastructure, generating lasting value at scale.”
While AI agents are increasingly used to automate digital workflows online, extending those capabilities into the physical world has remained complex, costly, and resource-intensive. Traditional approaches – siloed industry-specific solutions or custom ML tools – demand significant engineering expertise and capital investments, and they only solve narrow business problems (for example, safety) without the ability to generalize across multiple real-world use cases.
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With Archetype’s Physical Agents, businesses can turn raw sensor data into real-world intelligence in minutes using natural language prompts and APIs that integrate seamlessly with existing frameworks. Powered by Newton, a breakthrough Physical AI foundation model, the agents fuse multimodal sensor data, video, and contextual information to generate insights, recommendations, and automations. The Archetype platform offers pre-built services like Agent Toolkit, enabling rapid assembly, testing, and deployment of Physical Agents. These agents can run anywhere in a private cloud, on-premise, or at the edge – ensuring complete data sovereignty and enterprise-grade security, a critical requirement for physical industries.
“Physical Agents allow businesses to move from intent to action with speed and efficiency that were not previously possible,” said Ivan Poupyrev, Co-founder and CEO of Archetype AI. “Newton provides general physical intelligence, while the Archetype platform and Agent Toolkit make it simple to build and deploy customer-specific solutions that solve their critical problems by using specific knowledge about their physical operations – here and now.”
SOURCE: Businesswire