Parallax Worlds Secures $4.9M To Virtualize Robotics Reliability Testing

• Parallax Worlds enables robotics teams to test real software in realistic digital twins before physical deployment.
• The company raised $4.9 million across pre-seed and seed rounds to expand its high-fidelity simulation platform.

Parallax Worlds, a San Francisco-based company building hyper-realistic simulations for robotics testing, has raised $4.9 million across its pre-seed and seed rounds. The $4 million seed round was led by Pear VC with participation from GS Futures, Kakao Ventures, Lightscape Partners, and others. The company will use the funding to grow its team, advance product development, and expand into large-scale enterprise manufacturing.

"Parallax is building the missing simulation layer that bridges robotics R&D and real-world deployment by virtualizing physical spaces to make testing and reliability scalable," said Payam Banazadeh, Visiting Partner, Pear VC, in a press release. "Their digital-twin platform turns simulation into a true reliability engine, transforming what used to take years of costly trial and error into weeks of virtual iteration. It's the kind of foundational shift that will redefine how entire industries build and trust automation, and we're proud to back the Parallax team as they make this vision a reality."

The company’s platform converts standard video footage, such as smartphone walkthroughs, into interactive 3D environments that serve as digital twins of real-world sites. Robotics teams use the same software they run on physical robots to test how they see, plan, and handle unexpected situations in these virtual spaces. The platform connects with industry-standard tools like NVIDIA Omniverse, Unreal Engine, and Unity, and adds robotics-specific behaviors and AI-driven scenario generation.

The team behind Parallax Worlds brings experience from Stanford’s robotics labs, factory-floor automation at BMW and Michelin, and software development for autonomous vehicles. The company reports that customers using the platform include Orangewood Labs, BotBuilt, and Rainier Labs, which are applying the platform across manufacturing, home construction, and mobile welding.

🌀 Tom’s Take:

Parallax Worlds is turning simulation into a reliability engine that can cut costly on-site testing by letting robotics teams prove performance virtually before deployment.

Source: ACCESS Newswire / Parallax Worlds