Luminary Cloud

Luminary Cloud develops a platform for building and deploying physics AI models, facilitating rapid design iteration and exploration through high-accuracy physics predictions. The platform offers integrated model development from data generation to secure inference APIs, enabling users to evaluate designs quickly and optimize across design requirements. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Mateo, Luminary Cloud has raised approximately $187M in Series B funding from investors including Sutter Hill Ventures and NVentures. The company addresses the computational bottleneck in engineering simulation by using AI to accelerate physics-based modeling tasks such as computational fluid dynamics and structural analysis, enabling engineers to evaluate design alternatives in seconds rather than hours or days required by traditional numerical simulation methods, dramatically compressing the product development cycle for aerospace, automotive, and industrial applications.