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Tanmay Agarwal
CEO, Parallax Worlds
Company

Based in
San Francisco, CA
Stage
Seed
Type
Founder
Tanmay Agarwal is co-founder and CEO of Parallax Worlds, a robotics simulation startup in San Francisco. He trained in Stanford's robotics community under professors Fei-Fei Li and Jiajun Wu, building software for home robots and self-driving vehicles. At Parallax Worlds, he and CTO Aumkar Renavikar built a platform that turns smartphone video into 3D digital twins so manufacturers can test robots before they reach the factory floor. Customers include Orangewood Labs, BotBuilt, and Rainier Labs. The company raised $4.9 million in seed funding led by Pear VC in November 2025.
Company

Parallax Worlds
Parallax Worlds builds simulation software that turns smartphone video into 3D digital twins so manufacturers can validate industrial robots before deployment on the factory floor.
Raised
$4.9M total (seed, Nov 2025)
Stage
Seed
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Investors
PV
Pear VC
GF
GS Futures
KV
Kakao Ventures
LP
Lightscape Partners
G
Gaingels
NT
Nova Threshold
MV
Mana Ventures
C
Conviction
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