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Zeromatter

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ZeroMatter is building a scalable simulation platform with extensible tooling aimed at making simulation more accessible for solving real-world problems.

Also known as 0m.dev Β· Zeromatter

AI & Machine LearningDeep TechRoboticsSaaS

Founders & leadership

IGIan Glow
Ian GlowinFounder

Investors Β· 5

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Zeromatter is a Mountain View, California-based simulation software company that offers a single platform for building, testing, and training autonomous and robotic systems. The product combines high-performance sensor simulation, automatic environment generation, multi-agent co-simulation frameworks, execution infrastructure, and tooling for launching and analyzing simulation runs. An investor description characterizes the core product as a photorealistic simulation engine with software tooling and infrastructure that lets users generate scenarios and synthetic data for AI model training and for sensor and autonomy testing and certification.

The company states its goal is to make simulation broadly accessible via a scalable platform with extensible tooling. It markets to six sectors: autonomy, aerospace, automotive, agriculture, drones, and green energy. Secondary coverage describes four core capability areas β€” sensor simulation (cameras, LiDAR, radar, ultrasonics), procedural environment generation, multi-agent co-simulation in shared virtual environments, and large-scale execution infrastructure with APIs, SDKs and dashboards β€” with a stated emphasis on closing the sim-to-real gap so simulated outputs are usable for training production systems.

Publicly available detail is limited: the company's own site contains no pricing, customer names, or product documentation in the retrieved pages, and headcount figures differ across sources (an org-chart directory lists an 11-50 employee band and 62 positions, while a founder profile cites 75+ engineers and roughly 85 people by early 2026).

Business model

Zeromatter sells access to a simulation platform and associated tooling to engineering teams building autonomous systems. The platform is positioned as infrastructure that customers would otherwise have to build internally, covering sensor models, environment generation, multi-agent co-simulation, and execution infrastructure, with APIs, SDKs, dashboards, and job-execution capabilities described as part of the offering. The website's primary call to action is a contact/sales form ("Talk To Zeromatter"), indicating a direct, sales-led enterprise motion rather than self-serve signup.

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History

Sources report the company was founded in 2022 by Ian Glow after his tenure on Tesla's Autopilot simulation team. Forbes reports that when Glow raised early capital, Zeromatter was "not much more than a pitch deck," and that he chose to work with investor Villi Iltchev β€” then a managing director at Two Sigma Ventures and later founder of Category Ventures β€” over several better-known firms. AE Industrial Partners records an initial investment in April 2024 and lists the company's status as active. By early 2026, secondary coverage describes total funding of $45 million and a team of roughly 85 people in Mountain View.

Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources β€” announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.

Key figures

latest reported
Employee rangeJan 202611-50
HeadcountJan 202675 engineers
Industries servedJan 20266 industries
Listed positionsJan 202662 positions
Total funding raisedJan 2026$45M

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed β€” not independently audited.

Timeline Β· 2

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
Zeromatter reported to have raised $45M in total

A profile of founder and CEO Ian Glow reports Zeromatter has raised $45 million to date; no round breakdown, date or investors are specified.

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Apr 2024
AE Industrial Partners makes initial investment in Zeromatter

AE Industrial Partners lists Zeromatter as an Enterprise Digital portfolio investment with an initial investment date of April 2024.

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Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.

In the news

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primary sources listed

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

Frequently asked questions

What does Zeromatter do?
ZeroMatter is building a scalable simulation platform with extensible tooling aimed at making simulation more accessible for solving real-world problems.
Who founded Zeromatter?
Zeromatter was founded by Ian Glow.
Who are Zeromatter's investors?
Zeromatter's investors include Catapult Ventures, Pebblebed, Spark Capital, AE Industrial Partners, Mana Ventures.