64 Best Simulation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Simulation Startups

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There are 65 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.1b. The average funding per company in this subset is $32.0m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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Funding Rounds

$11.1m

Money raised

Sky Engine AI is an advanced data science technology and research company that develops evolutionary AI platform for deep learning in virtual reality for any computer vision applications.

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4

Funding Rounds

$84.9m

Money raised

Physna is a Cincinnati-based 3D modelling software company offering 3D models understandable by software applications for manufacturing, engineering, product design, 3D printing, augmented reality and virtual reality applications.

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9

Funding Rounds

$90.0m

Money raised

SimScale is a cloud-based CAE software that helps users perform simulations of CAD models.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

Rahko is a company that is developing a quantum discovery platform for the chemical simulations.

4

Funding Rounds

$146.0m

Money raised

Rescale is a company developing and providing software platform and hardware infrastructure for companies to perform scientific and engineering simulation.

60

Funding Rounds

$53.0m

Money raised

Engineering And Software Systems Solutions, Inc is a San Diego-based company founded in 2000.

4

Funding Rounds

$351.5m

Money raised

An infrastructure company for self-driving cars. It is located in Sunnyvale, California and was founded in 2017.

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3

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$33.0m

Money raised

Imbellus is a U.S-based company developing digital competency-based assessments founded in 2015 by Rebecca Kantar.

3

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$22.4m

Money raised

OnScale is a company founded by Andrew Tweedie, Gerry Harvey, Ian Campbell and Robbie Banks.

3

Funding Rounds

$72.0m

Money raised

DataGen Technologies is a data company.

1

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$2.6m

Money raised

Space Applications Services is a company that looks to provide systems for aerospace and security industries

3

Funding Rounds

$5.2m

Money raised

HQS Quantum Simulations Company is a Karlsruhe-based company developing quantum computing software and algorithms for predicting the properties of performance materials, specialty chemicals, and pharmaceutical companies.

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3

Funding Rounds

$850.0k

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Exabyte.io is a San Francisco-based company founded by Timur Bazhirov in 2014.

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3

Funding Rounds

$56.4m

Money raised

SeeQC is a company developing and commercializing quantum technologies founded in 2019.

2

Funding Rounds

$62.5m

Money raised

nTopology is a company developing design and engineering software founded in 2015.

22

Funding Rounds

$6.9m

Money raised

Spectral Labs Incorporated is a San Diego-based company founded in 2008.

2

Funding Rounds

$20.2m

Money raised

In-silico disease specific models for drug development company

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1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Software platform and professional services for complex systems modeling and simulation, targeting in particular energy networks and urban planning applications.

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KNOLSKAPE Solutions is a company founded in 2008 by Rajiv Jayaraman.

2

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

Engineering simulation platform for SMB. CENOS helps small engineering companies to replace physical prototyping with virtual testing.

3

Funding Rounds

$23.5m

Money raised

Cognata is a supplier of automotive simulation for Advanced Driver Assistance System and autonomous vehicle markets.

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1

Funding Rounds

$3.0m

Money raised

Novadiscovery is an in silico Prediction of Drug Efficacy founded in 2010 by Jean-Pierre Boissel, François-Henri Boissel and Frédéric Cogny.

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1

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

Street Smarts offers specialized virtual reality simulated training experiences to prepare law enforcement & military for effective de-escalation of high stress situations

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1

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DiSTI is a leading provider of professional solutions for HMI software, embedded UI, and virtual maintenance training.

2

Funding Rounds

$25.0k

Money raised

Borsetta is a developer of software-defined hardware for edge computing.

3

Funding Rounds

$3.9m

Money raised

TerraLoupe is a company founded by Christian Schaub, Josef Schindler, Manuela Rasthofer and Sebastian Gerke.

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6

Funding Rounds

$3.3m

Money raised

SIMETRI provides medical simulation training products and services as well as engineering and manufacturing solutions

2

Funding Rounds

$970.7k

Money raised

Vertex Solutions is a company which provides virtual training using technologies such as extended reality for pilots and key aircraft support staff in the U.S. defense and public safety sectors

2

Funding Rounds

$12.0m

Money raised

Simudyne is an artificial Intelligence company founded in 2017 by Justin Lyon.

1

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CircuitLab is a company developing and offering tools that enable students, engineers and hobbyists to design, analyze, build and share circuits. It participated in the W13 cohort of Y Combinator.

2

Funding Rounds

$11.8m

Money raised

Lavante is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 2001 by Tom Flynn.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.7m

Money raised

UberCloud is a company founded in 2014 by Burak Yenier.

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2

Funding Rounds

$7.7m

Money raised

Mixamo is a San Francisco-based company founded in 2008 by Stefano Corazza.

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1

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

Hash is a Manhattan-based company founded in 2019 by David Wilkinson.

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1

Funding Rounds

$6.1m

Money raised

Ambi Robotics is an AI and robotics company developing solutions for e-commerce operations.

1

Funding Rounds

$16.0m

Money raised

PharmCADD is a company founded in 2019 by Taehyung Kwon.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.5m

Money raised

Kovrr empowers insurers to understand, quantify, and manage cyber risk.

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3

Funding Rounds

$5.1m

Money raised

SynDaver manufactures high-fidelity human and animal models for medical simulation, education and medical device development and validation.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

Seoul Robotics builds advanced Lidar perception software powered by deep learning.

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1

Funding Rounds

$50.0m

Money raised

Cigital is a Dulles, Virginia-based consulting firm providing specialized secured software.

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2

Funding Rounds

$3.1m

Money raised

Neuri PTE LTD. is a Singapore, Central Region, Singapore-based company founded by Fred Almeida.

1

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

Provides 3D simulation software for training new recruits in military, healthcare, and other professional contexts.

1

Funding Rounds

$6.4m

Money raised

AWR Corporation is a company founded in 1997.

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1

Funding Rounds

$72.0k

Money raised

CloudAhoy is a Lexington, Massachusetts-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$449.1k

Money raised

Scalable Display Technologies is a Cambridge, Massachusetts-based simulation company founded in 2004 by Rajeev Surati.

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1

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Bohemia Interactive Simulations is an Orlando, Florida-based company founded in 2013.

3

Funding Rounds

$125.0m

Money raised

nTopology creates 3D Design & Engineering Software

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2

Funding Rounds

$10.8m

Money raised

nextmv is a Philadelphia-based simulation company founded in 2019 by Carolyn Mooney.

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1

Funding Rounds

$120.0k

Money raised

BuildSim is a Pittsburgh-based company founded in 2017 by Haopeng Wang, Weili Xu and Zheng Zhang.

1

Funding Rounds

$44.0m

Money raised

Xscape Photonics provides photonic chips for high-speed connections in high-performance computing systems and data centers.

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1

Funding Rounds

$21.5m

Money raised

Vsim is a robotics simulation framework developer founded in 2022 by Michelle Lu.

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3

Funding Rounds

$24.6m

Money raised

3

Funding Rounds

$11.7m

Money raised

Sidense is a simulation company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$7.2m

Money raised

1

Funding Rounds

$7.1m

Money raised

FEops is a Belgium-based company founded in 2009.

1

Funding Rounds

$864.8k

Money raised

SmartUQ is a Madison, Wisconsin-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$5.4m

Money raised

Ufa Inc is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based simulation company founded in 1979.

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2

Funding Rounds

$22.6m

Money raised

Morai is a simulation company.

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2

Funding Rounds

$5.8m

Money raised

DEM Solutions is a simulation company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$26.0m

Money raised

Ambi is a San Francisco-based company.

1

Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

1

Funding Rounds

$5.0m

Money raised

BestEx is a New York City-based simulation company.

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2

Funding Rounds

$12.6m

Money raised

ProtoPie is a simulation company.

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1

Funding Rounds

$525.0m

Money raised

Unity is a San Francisco-based company.

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