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Parametric

Fall 2025 · Active

Robots for frontline physical labor — starting with laundry

Location: San Francisco, US

Founded: 2025

Team size: 2

About

Existing robots learn generic averages from massive datasets. Our robots learn from customer feedback. We solve the RL feedback loop for robotics, allowing our robots to learn from your specific standards via an automated reward pipeline that combines customer feedback with an intelligent judge model. This is the only way to capture the multi-trillion dollar “long tail” of unique, high-aggregate-value business tasks.

Founders

  • Cody SwainCo-Founder & CEO

    Led model ROI and offline simulation for recommendations at Facebook. Prior to this, founded a stablecoin wallet company and worked on zk-SNARK identity proofs.

  • John NewsomFounder/CTO

    Led the self-driving team at Parallel Systems and worked as a researcher at BAIR focused on robotics, world models, and large language models.