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Argus Systems

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Argus Systems builds data curation and evaluation infrastructure purpose-built for robot foundation model development and physical AI. Co-founded by ex-Waymo Perception engineers who built large-scale autonomous driving data pipelines, the platform standardizes how robotics teams collect high-fidelity real-world sensor data, curate training datasets, run structured evaluations against real-world conditions, and benchmark model performance before deployment; drawing directly from the data flywheel discipline that scaled Waymo's autonomous perception stack. Unlike general-purpose CV data platforms, Argus targets the specific multi-modal sensor and scenario coverage requirements of embodied AI systems. Robot-primary: robots and physical AI models are the exclusive customer vertical. Won the HBS New Venture Competition Dubilier Grand Prize (Student Business Track, 2025) and raised $3M seed co-led by Norwest and Maple VC.

HeadquartersSan Francisco, US
Founded2025
Corporate fundingNot disclosed
Team1-10
Deployments0
Open roles0
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Company overview

Identity and operating footprint

Company typePhysical AI software
Market segmentCorporate
StageSeed
FoundersLisa Yan (Co-Founder; ex-Waymo Perception, CMU, HBS MBA 2025), Drew Borinstein (Co-Founder; HBS MBA 2025)
Regions servedUS
Countries deployedNot listed
Service footprintNot listed
Last reviewed2026-07-05
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Company timeline

Milestones and announcements

2025-06-01Raised $3M seed round co-led by Norwest and Maple VC, with Flex Capital, Depth Capital Ventures, The Graduate Syndicate, Parallel VC, and angel investors, to build data and evaluation infrastructure for robotics and physical AI foundation modelsLinkedIn (Lisa Yan)
2025-03-31Won the HBS New Venture Competition Dubilier Grand Prize (Student Business Track 2025): Harvard Business School's top startup prize, awarded over $300K in prizes across finalistsThe Harvard Crimson
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