The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Midcentury: $15.0M raised. 3 sources back the record.
Overview
Physical AI data and simulation company. Exited stealth in September 2026 with a $15M seed round. Claims a large labeled egocentric dataset and Matrix agentic simulation for policy evaluation and RL. Team background cited from Stanford, OpenAI, DeepMind, and NVIDIA. Dataset scale claims are company-claimed.
Reality check
Egocentric dataset (company-claimed)
Company site claims 2M+ hours of unscripted egocentric data across 50+ environments with 3D hand pose, point tracks, depth, and task annotations (video/IMU/audio). Not independently verified.
Products (company-claimed, releasing soon)
MC-Motion (egocentric 3D motion reconstruction), MC-Shade (engine-agnostic photoreal rendering for sim), MC-PhysBench (long-horizon physics validity benchmark for world models). Status: releasing soon per company site.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Seed round
Focus
Website
Data & sources
Web sources
3
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Safety record
No incidents on record for Midcentury.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Financial state
- Total funding
- $15.0M
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Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdSep 22, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (3)
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-23
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-23
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Midcentury.Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/midcentury.md
- RSS feed: /companies/midcentury/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/92d65a9c-5021-4bd7-a49a-527d50da9bb2
- Revision history: /companies/midcentury/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Midcentury against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 23, 2026