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Perceptron
Emerging neolabMultimodal vision-language models for physical AI (perception, reasoning and robot control)
Raised, confirmed—0 confirmed rounds
Valuation, confirmed—none disclosed
Valuation, reported—no open report
Founded2024Bellevue, WA, US
Key facts
| Field | Value | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|
| Classification | Emerging neolabResearch company founded in Nov 2024 by former Meta FAIR researchers, releasing open-weight vision and embodied models (Isaac 0.5, Aug 2026) | |
| Field | AGI and superintelligence, Robotics and physical AI | |
| Founded | Nov 2024 | |
| Headquarters | Bellevue, WA, USLocation listed on the company's careers section for all open roles; no registered-office statement found. | perceptron.incchecked 15 Nov 2026 |
| Founders | Armen Aghajanyan, Akshat Shrivastava | |
| Website | perceptron.inc | |
| Careers | perceptron.inc | perceptron.incchecked 15 Nov 2026 |
| Profiles and work | X @perceptronincLinkedInHugging Face, 5 modelsGitHub, 13 public repos | How links are checkedchecked 15 Nov 2026 |
Funding rounds
No round of Perceptron is confirmed by the company or a regulator. Rounds marked Reported or Abandoned are not included in that total. Status rules: methodology.
| Date | Round | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Status | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2026 | Funding round | undisclosed | — | not disclosed | Reported | TechCrunch TechCrunch understands the startup is in the process of closing an additional round.checked 15 Nov 2026 |
| 2024 | Funding round | undisclosed | — | SmartGateVC | Reported |
Notes on these rounds
- 26 Aug 2026 Funding round: Reported as being closed; no amount or investors named.
- 2024 Funding round: Amount not disclosed by the company or reported on an outlet's own authority.
People
| Name | Role | Before | Now | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armen AghajanyanXScholarHugging Face | Co-founder | Meta FAIR (Led multimodal research) | Current | perceptron.inc Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava previously led multimodal research initiatives at FAIRchecked 15 Nov 2026 |
| Akshat ShrivastavaXScholarHugging FaceSite | Co-founder | Meta FAIR (Led multimodal research) | Current | perceptron.inc Armen Aghajanyan and Akshat Shrivastava previously led multimodal research initiatives at FAIRchecked 15 Nov 2026 |
Professional facts from public sources only. How people records are handled.
What it has shipped
| Name | Kind | Date | Open weights | Source · checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Isaac 0.5 | model | 26 Aug 2026 | Yes | perceptron.inc Today we are releasing Isaac 0.5, our new open-source embodied foundation model.checked 15 Nov 2026 |
| Perceptron Mk1.5 | model | 25 Sep 2026 | No | perceptron.inc Today we're releasing Perceptron Mk1.5: a model built to control embodied agents.checked 15 Nov 2026 |
| Perceptron Mk1 | model | 12 May 2026 | No | perceptron.inc A closed-source VLM that hit frontier on embodied reasoning and video understanding, while improving on all image-native tasks.checked 15 Nov 2026 |
| Isaac 0.1 | model | Yes | perceptron.inc An open-source vision-language model (VLM) that hit frontier on image grounding and localizationchecked 15 Nov 2026 |
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