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Asad Tirmizi
Asad Tirmizi
Founder and CEO, Trener Robotics
Company
Trener Robotics
Based in
San Francisco, CA
Stage
Series A
Type
Founder
Asad Tirmizi is the founder and CEO of Trener Robotics, which trains AI skills for industrial robots so commercially available arms can take on high-mix work like CNC machine tending without line-by-line programming. Trener's platform, Acteris, raised a $32M Series A in February 2026 co-led by Engine Ventures and IAG Capital Partners, taking total funding past $38M. Before Trener he was a senior roboticist at Vicarious, a haptics research scientist at TikTok, and spent five years as a robotics researcher at Flanders Make in Belgium. He holds a PhD in robotics.
Company
Trener Robotics
Trener Robotics
An intelligence layer for industrial robots. Acteris replaces point-to-point programming with trained, deployable skills built on vision, language, and action models, starting with CNC machine tending.
Founded
2023
Stage
Series A
Raised
$38M
HQ
San Francisco
Investors
EV
Engine Ventures
ICP
IAG Capital Partners
GC
Geodesic Capital
EV
Emergent Ventures
RC
Radius Capital
RV
Raisewell Ventures
BS
Berkeley SkyDeck
A
ABB
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