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Asad Tirmizi
Founder and CEO, Trener Robotics
Company

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
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
Investor data via Harmonic
In the News
Feb 10, 2026
Business Wire
Trener Robotics raises $32M Series A to bring physical intelligence to industrial automation
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Feb 2026
The Robot Report
Trener Robotics raises $32M for robot-agnostic skills platform
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Aug 2, 2026
Trener Robotics
Trener Robotics joins AMD's Open Robotics Ecosystem at Advancing AI 2026
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2026
Fifth Wave Manufacturing
Interview: Dr. Asad Tirmizi, Founder and CEO of Trener Robotics
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