Physics AI Is Reshaping How the Physical World Is Built
Luminary exists to make that possible for the engineering organizations doing the work.
Physics AI Is Redefining What's Possible in Engineering
Luminary gives engineering organizations the platform to operationalize Physics AI at production scale, with the traceability, control, and confidence that real programs require.
Capital Raised
Backed by Leading Investors
Sutter Hill Ventures
Led $115 million in funding. They are known for investing in companies disrupting large existing markets, including Snowflake and NVIDIA.
N47
Led the Series B fundraising round, and T.J. Rylander joined the board of directors. They are known for investing in product-first companies.
NVentures
NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, participated in the Series B. NVIDIA is also an important technology partner.
Backed by Leading Investors
Sutter Hill Ventures
Led $115 million in funding. They are known for investing in companies disrupting large existing markets, including Snowflake and NVIDIA.
N47
Led the Series B fundraising round, and T.J. Rylander joined the board of directors. They are known for investing in product-first companies.
NVentures
NVentures, NVIDIA's venture capital arm, participated in the Series B. NVIDIA is also an important technology partner.
Luminary has solved the biggest problem of generating the necessary synthetic data to build and train accurate Physics AI models. I am ecstatic to join Luminary's board and partner with them as they continue scaling rapidly.
T.J. Rylander, General Partner at N47
Using AI to make something small, like a spacecraft thruster, puts us on a path to do much bigger things, like using AI to design larger components or even an entire spacecraft.
Han Park, VP Artificial Intelligence Integration, Northrop Grumman Space Systems
By running our proprietary flight sciences on their platform, we're accelerating innovation and developing next-generation Physics-AI models across our design process.
Obi Ndu, Chief Information & Digital Officer, Otto Aviation
Team
Executive Leadership
Pete Schlampp, Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures, previously served as Workday's chief strategy officer and EVP of product development. His career spans leadership roles at Workday, Cisco, and IronPort Systems.
→ Connect on LinkedInJuan is Chair of the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University and served as Director of the NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Program. At Stanford, he focuses on advanced computational methods for aerospace system design.
→ Connect on LinkedInSuds has more than 25 years of experience delivering successful enterprise platforms in data, distributed systems, and AI. His career includes senior leadership and founding roles at Cloudera, Sema4.ai, SnappyData, VMware, Pivotal, and TIBCO.
→ Connect on LinkedInPeter Lyu has 10+ years in engineering simulations, HPC, and physics AI. He led GTM teams in cloud HPC and CAE before Luminary. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan.
→ Connect on LinkedInEthan has over a decade experience helping lead and scale GTM organizations at Wiz, Apollo GraphQL, and Salesforce.
→ Connect on LinkedInCong Ho is an accomplished finance and operations leader known for scaling high-growth startups including AppOmni, Agari, and RingCentral.
→ Connect on LinkedInEdward is a 4x CISO and Cybersecurity Executive. Before joining Luminary Cloud, he served as CISO at Aryaka Networks.
→ Connect on LinkedInBoard of Directors
Pete Schlampp, Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures, previously served as Workday's chief strategy officer and EVP of product development. His career spans leadership roles at Workday, Cisco, and IronPort Systems.
Juan is Chair of the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at Stanford University and served as Director of the NASA Fundamental Aeronautics Program. At Stanford, he focuses on advanced computational methods for aerospace system design.
T.J. is a General Partner at N47, which he joined in 2017 and where he invests globally in enterprise-focused companies. Before N47, T.J. spent 10 years at In-Q-Tel, focused on software and security investing.
Vic is a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures. He earned a PhD in mechanical engineering from Stanford, and he has worked at Apple in a product incubation group and in the Tesla Design Studio.
Chad Peets is currently the Managing Partner at RPT Capital. Prior to RPT he was a Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures for five years.
