Lin Wei & Chris Novak, founder of Aperture

$140M Series B

Aperture

Aperture Raises $140M Series B as Co-Founders Scale Multimodal World Models for Enterprise Simulation

  • World Models
  • Agent Eval
  • Simulation

Co-founded platform building multimodal world models that simulate real environments so agents can rehearse logistics, robotics, and ops workflows before touching production systems.

Lin Wei & Chris Novak · ex-DeepMind / ex-Waymo

“Agents that only train on text hallucinate the physical world. We give them a camera-ready universe with physics and failure modes.”

— Founder

“World models are the next infrastructure layer after foundation models—Aperture is shipping enterprise-grade simulation, not research demos.”

— Sarah Tavel · Benchmark