Antioch
Category: Robotics / Embodied AI
Antioch provides a development and simulation platform for autonomy teams to accelerate timelines, rigorously evaluate autonomous systems, and deploy with confidence. Antioch was founded in 2025. The company is led by Harry Mellsop. Based in New York, United States. Team size: 1-10. Total funding raised: $12.75M. Latest round: Seed. Key investors include ["A*","Category Ventures","Abstract Ventures","MaC Venture Capital","Box Group","Icehouse Ventures","Adrian Macneil","Shyam Sankar"].
- Founded
- 2025
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Team size
- 1-10
- Total funding
- $12.75M
Value proposition
Antioch's main value proposition is to solve one of the most significant challenges in autonomy: safely validating AI-driven systems that operate in the physical world. By shifting development and validation workflows from hardware-in-the-loop to pure software, the company helps accelerate development cycles, improve reliability, and enable scalable, test-driven workflows.
Products and solutions
["Antioch Ark - containerization platform for robotics simulation","Cloud simulation platform for autonomous systems","Integration with CI/CD pipelines and observability tools"]
Unique value
Antioch's uniqueness lies in its software-first approach, which virtualizes the hardware testing process for robotics. This allows for faster, more scalable, and less expensive development and validation of autonomous systems compared to traditional hardware-in-the-loop methods.
Target customer
Autonomy and robotics teams, from startups to Fortune 500 companies
Industries served
["Construction Robotics","Smart Security","Foundational-Model Developers"]
Technology advantage
The key advantage is a significant acceleration of the development and deployment of AI-driven robotics. By enabling purely software-based testing and validation, Antioch allows for more rigorous evaluation and debugging, leading to more reliable and safer autonomous systems. The platform's native integration with existing development workflows (like CI/CD) also lowers the barrier to adoption for robotics teams.
How they differentiate
Antioch provides a cloud-first simulation platform for AI robotics testing, which is a lower-cost and more accessible solution compared to hardware-in-the-loop processes. This allows for broader competition in the autonomy and robotics industry.
Main competitors
["NVIDIA Isaac","Other AI robotics simulation platforms"]
Key partnerships
["Fortune 500 companies","Startups in construction robotics","Smart security companies","Foundational-model developers"]
Notable customers
["Fortune 500 companies","Startups in construction robotics","Startups in smart security","Foundational-model developers"]
Major milestones
["Founded in May 2025","Raised $4.25M in a pre-seed round in December 2025","Raised $8.5M seed round at $60M valuation in April 2026","Working with Fortune 500 and FAANG engineering teams"]
Growth metrics
Not publicly available
Market positioning
Antioch is positioned as an enabler for a wider range of companies to compete in the autonomy and robotics space by providing a more affordable and scalable testing solution. They aim to unlock the 'sci-fi future' by making robotics development more accessible.
Geographic focus
While headquartered in New York, United States, Antioch's cloud-based platform has the potential for a global reach. Their initial focus appears to be on the North American market.
Patents and IP
Information not publicly available
About Harry Mellsop
Founder & CEO at Antioch, former Vision Engineer at Tesla Autopilot, Co-Founder & CTO at Transpose (acquired by Chainalysis), Head of Engineering at Chainalysis
Official website: https://antioch.com