Harry Mellsop
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@HarryMellsop
Founder @antiochrobotics — we’re enabling the agentic development of autonomy. Formerly CTO @TransposeData (acq. by @Chainalysis), @Tesla AI, @stanford.
OVERRATED: running tons of agents in parallel; working on too many things at once; perpetual context-switching; opening lots of low-quality PRs that may never land. UNDERRATED: using one or two agents at a time; focusing on the task in front of you; thinking deeply; finishing stuff; making your code works in prod.
We’ve raised $8.5M in seed funding, valuing Antioch at $60M, to build the simulation platform for physical autonomy. The raise was led by @Category_VC and @A_StarVC, with participation from @MaCVentureCap, @AbstractVC, @BoxGroup, @IcehouseVenture, and angels. Antioch brings robotics and autonomy development entirely into simulation. Teams build, iterate, and test their full autonomous stacks in a single platform, accelerated by agents with native understanding of 3D environments. We're doing for physical autonomy what coding agents have done for software development. When the entire development loop lives in simulation, engineers and agents can reason about a robotic stack the same way they reason about a codebase: run it, observe the result, and iterate. The funding will go toward further expanding the engineering team, the core simulation infrastructure, and our new agentic framework. TechCrunch covered the raise and what we’re building: techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/thi… If you’re an exceptional engineer interested in redefining autonomy development, we’d love to chat: antioch.com/careers.
We’ve raised $8.5M in seed funding, valuing Antioch at $60M, to build the simulation platform for physical autonomy. The raise was led by @Category_VC and @A_StarVC, with participation from @MaCVentureCap, @AbstractVC, @BoxGroup, @IcehouseVenture, and angels. Antioch brings robotics and autonomy development entirely into simulation. Teams build, iterate, and test their full autonomous stacks in a single platform, accelerated by agents with native understanding of 3D environments. We're doing for physical autonomy what coding agents have done for software development. When the entire development loop lives in simulation, engineers and agents can reason about a robotic stack the same way they reason about a codebase: run it, observe the result, and iterate. The funding will go toward further expanding the engineering team, the core simulation infrastructure, and our new agentic framework. TechCrunch covered the raise and what we’re building: techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/thi… If you’re an exceptional engineer interested in redefining autonomy development, we’d love to chat: antioch.com/careers.
This simulation startup wants to be the Cursor for physical AI techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/thi…
We’ve raised $8.5M in seed funding, valuing Antioch at $60M, to build the simulation platform for physical autonomy. The raise was led by @Category_VC and @A_StarVC, with participation from @MaCVentureCap, @AbstractVC, @BoxGroup, @IcehouseVenture, and angels. Antioch brings robotics and autonomy development entirely into simulation. Teams build, iterate, and test their full autonomous stacks in a single platform, accelerated by agents with native understanding of 3D environments. We're doing for physical autonomy what coding agents have done for software development. When the entire development loop lives in simulation, engineers and agents can reason about a robotic stack the same way they reason about a codebase: run it, observe the result, and iterate. The funding will go toward further expanding the engineering team, the core simulation infrastructure, and our new agentic framework. TechCrunch covered the raise and what we’re building: techcrunch.com/2026/04/16/thi… If you’re an exceptional engineer interested in redefining autonomy development, we’d love to chat: antioch.com/careers.
