Fundraising Fox
MSBAI
Techstars '20Sylmar, US · Founded 2017 · 17 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Find your way into MSBAI
Sign up to see every warm intro you have to MSBAI
- Paths you didn't know you had: your email and LinkedIn already hold routes to the MSBAI team. We find them for you
- 2nd- and 3rd-degree connections: the friend-of-a-friend routes that take hours to manually find through your inbox or LinkedIn
- Answers now, not in days: momentum is everything in a raise. Skip asking around whether someone knows someone
Days of research, done the moment you sign in, with every route ranked by how warm it is.
GURU is an autonomous AI system that automates expert workflows in software applications including design, simulation, and 3D modeling tools. It enables users to interact via text, speech, sketch, or gestures across desktop, mobile, and VR devices, and supports deployment on commercial cloud infrastructure.
Also known as MicroSurgeonBot · MicroSurgeonBot, Inc. · MSBAI (Techstars '20)
Investors · 1
How we know: the Techstars portfolio · open dataset · Top 3000 Accelerator Startups (no YC) 2026-08 · Not right? Tell us
Company profile
researched Sep 2026MSBAI develops GURU, a hierarchical, neuro-symbolic multi-agent AI platform that automates expert engineering and operations workflows inside software applications. GURU's learning engine pre-trains skills agents on complex end-to-end procedures, and supports a growing list of software titles including Unreal Engine, Blender and OpenFOAM. Users interact with the system through text, speech, sketch or gestures, on desktop, smartphone or VR devices, and can collaborate with teammates on projects.
The platform's core skill areas are geometry search and synthesis (creating or modifying complex geometries from descriptions or sketches), simulation and analysis (defining parameters, boundary conditions and material properties, and identifying trends and patterns in results), and virtual world building for high-fidelity environments and training scenarios. Jobs can be dispatched to commercial cloud across multiple vendors, singly or at scale, or run on integrated high-performance computing resources. The company positions GURU as a universal interface for simulation that lets untrained users operate specialized simulation software, moving simulation from a specialist niche into everyday engineering work.
In January 2025 MSBAI introduced OrbitGuard, an AI copilot for space traffic control, at CES 2025, extending its AI-assisted simulation approach into safety-critical operational domains.
Business model
MSBAI licenses GURU to enterprise and government customers under a recurring license model, with the platform able to run on integrated high-performance computing resources or on commercial cloud infrastructure, allowing customers to balance speed against cost. Delivery is supported by strategic partnerships and protected intellectual property.
Recurring software licensing of the GURU platform, deployable on customer high-performance computing resources or commercial cloud, supplemented by government and research contracts.
Traction
The company reports support for a growing list of software titles and cites customer commentary from SAIC regarding AI-enabled simulation analysis. Third-party listings place headcount at roughly 16 employees within an 11-50 range and estimate annual revenue in the $10M-$25M range as of August 2026. Reported milestones include a $1.25 million SpaceWERX contract with Princeton University and the CES 2025 launch of OrbitGuard.
Latest developments
At CES 2025 in Las Vegas on January 8, 2025, MSBAI unveiled OrbitGuard, an AI copilot for space traffic control.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
MSBAI operates in the simulation and engineering software market, where comparable and competing vendors include SimScale, Ansys, Siemens, Autodesk and MathWorks. It is categorized under software publishers (NAICS 5112) and the software development industry.
MSBAI describes GURU as proprietary, defense-validated technology combining simulation orchestration, physics-based modeling and autonomous decision systems to replicate expert knowledge work at scale, with protected intellectual property and multi-vendor cloud and HPC portability. The interface is designed so that untrained users can operate specialized simulation software.
Technology
GURU is described as a proprietary hierarchical neuro-symbolic multi-agent AI system whose learning engine pre-trains skills agents on complex workflows. It integrates simulation orchestration, physics-based modeling and autonomous decision systems, supports multimodal interaction (text, speech, sketch, gestures) across desktop, mobile and VR, drives third-party tools such as Unreal Engine, Blender and OpenFOAM, and runs across multiple commercial cloud vendors and HPC environments. The company's web infrastructure uses Cloudflare and Cloudflare DNS.
Go-to-market
The company sells into defense, aerospace, energy and manufacturing organizations, using research and government contracting vehicles alongside commercial licensing; a reported SpaceWERX contract with Princeton University and work referenced by SAIC illustrate this channel. It has also used industry events such as CES for product launches.
Engineering teams and organizations that depend on simulation for decision-making, including customers in defense, aerospace and automotive, energy, manufacturing and immersive training, as well as government agencies and aerospace suppliers.
Geography
MSBAI is headquartered in the Los Angeles area of California, with listed locations including Sylmar, Outpost Estates, Calabasas and other California sites, plus California, MD. Its workforce has been reported as distributed across North America, Asia and Europe.
History
The company was founded in 2017 and participated in Techstars in 2020, where it is listed at the seed stage. In December 2023 it was reported to have been awarded a $1.25 million SpaceWERX contract in collaboration with Princeton University, and in January 2025 it unveiled OrbitGuard at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.
Compiled by commissioned research from 7 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Non-dilutive funding · 7 SBIR/STTR awards
Federal grants — no equity taken| Agency | Phase | Year | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase IISTTR | 2023 | $1.2M |
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase ISTTR | 2023 | $74.8K |
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase ISTTR | 2022 | $250K |
| Department of Energy | Phase I | 2022 | $199.9K |
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase II | 2021 | $999.3K |
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase II | 2021 | $749.2K |
| U.S. Air ForceAir Force | Phase I | 2020 | $50K |
Source: SBIR.gov award data (U.S. Small Business Administration). SBIR/STTR awards are competitive federal R&D grants and contracts — non-dilutive capital alongside any venture rounds above.
Timeline · 2
launches, deals, and filingsMSBAI announced OrbitGuard, an AI copilot for space traffic control, at CES 2025 in Las Vegas.
MSBAI, in collaboration with Princeton University, was reported as having been awarded a contract valued at $1.25 million from SpaceWERX.
$1.3M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 7
primary sources listed
- MSBAImsb.ai · web
7 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.
Frequently asked questions
- What does MSBAI do?
- MSBAI builds GURU, a multi-agent AI platform that automates expert simulation and engineering workflows in software.
- Who are MSBAI's investors?
- MSBAI's investors include Techstars.
- Where is MSBAI headquartered?
- MSBAI is headquartered in Sylmar, US.