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Parallel Domain

What Parallel Domain does

Parallel Domain is a private company building synthetic data generation and sensor simulation to help teams develop, test, and validate “Physical AI” systems—especially perception stacks for autonomy. Its core products, PD Replica and PD Sim, are designed around reconstruction-first digital twins: users ingest real capture logs (for example, drive logs) and turn them into simulation-ready environments, then generate deterministic, multi-sensor (camera, lidar, radar) sensor simulation outputs that can be used for training, regression testing, and scenario-based validation.

News

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Mar 19, 2026 · Official · Parallel DomainParallel Domain Welcomes Zack Novak as CEO

Parallel Domain announced Zack Novak joining as CEO to scale the company’s commercial and operational engine, with Kevin McNamara shifting deeper into product/engineering/customer work.

Jan 06, 2026 · Official · Parallel DomainFrom Sparse Data to Photorealism: Accelerating Physical AI with Parallel Domain and NVIDIA Fixer

Parallel Domain announced an integration of NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec Fixer into the PD Replica pipeline, describing improved reconstruction outputs intended to increase simulation trust for end-to-end model testing and perception verification.

Nov 06, 2025 · Official · Parallel DomainForetellix and Parallel Domain Partner to Bring Hyper Realistic Digital Twins to AV Simulation

Parallel Domain announced a strategic partnership with Foretellix combining scenario-based testing with photorealistic sensor simulation from drive logs/annotated sensors, positioned for closed-loop and end-to-end AV validation.

Aug 19, 2025 · Official · Parallel DomainNew Mcity Digital Twin by Parallel Domain Brings Physical AI Research Closer to Reality

Parallel Domain announced completion of a digital Replica of the Mcity Test Facility, describing a high-fidelity simulation environment intended to enable perception/control testing with photorealism, matched lighting, and accurate physics, accessible via PD Replica Sim API.

Jan 22, 2025 · Official · Parallel DomainParallel Domain joins Mcity to power simulations on PD Replica digital twin

Parallel Domain announced joining Mcity and planned to leverage PD Replica to provide pixel-accurate digital twins and resimulation via API for closed-loop and open-loop testing in the Mcity partnership context.

Nov 16, 2022 · Official · Parallel DomainParallel Domain Raises $30 Million Series B to super-train AI

Parallel Domain announced raising $30M in Series B funding led by March Capital with participation from Costanoa Ventures, Foundry Group, Calibrate Ventures, and Ubiquity Ventures; the post also describes traction metrics and product direction.

Dec 09, 2020 · Official · Parallel DomainAnnouncing Our Series A to Accelerate Computer Vision Development

Parallel Domain announced it raised $11M in Series A funding and described its API-centric approach for generating configurable synthetic sensor data (Batch/Step/Stream modes) intended to accelerate training and testing across the ML development lifecycle.

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Funding

Latest disclosed valuationNot disclosed
Tracked capital$43.5M3 sourced rounds

What it builds

PD Replica

PD Replica is Parallel Domain’s scene-reconstruction product that turns real-world capture data into simulation-ready digital twins with annotations and HD-mapped reconstruction so teams can resimulate scenarios. ([paralleldomain.com](https://paralleldomain.com/product))

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PD Sim

PD Sim is Parallel Domain’s Python API gateway for configuring and running test scenarios and sensor simulation at scale, intended to integrate into an autonomy stack for closed- or open-loop simulation workflows. ([paralleldomain.com](https://paralleldomain.com/product))

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Milestones & partnerships

Mar 19, 2026
CEO transition announced

Parallel Domain announced Zack Novak joining as CEO, with Kevin McNamara shifting to deeper product/engineering/customer work.

Parallel Domain Board
Jan 06, 2026
NVIDIA Fixer integrated into PD Replica pipeline

Parallel Domain announced integration of NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec Fixer into PD Replica for improved photorealistic/nobel-view reconstruction outputs used for simulation-ready testing.

NVIDIA
Nov 06, 2025
Strategic partnership with Foretellix for AV simulation

Parallel Domain announced a partnership with Foretellix combining scenario-based validation with photorealistic sensor simulation for AV development and testing workflows.

Foretellix
Aug 19, 2025
Mcity PD Replica digital twin completed

Parallel Domain announced completion of a high-fidelity digital Replica of the Mcity Test Facility for perception/control testing with realism nearly indistinguishable from the physical track.

Mcity · University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Jan 22, 2025
Mcity partnership begins for PD Replica-based simulations

Parallel Domain announced it became a member of Mcity and would leverage PD Replica to provide high-fidelity digital twins and API-driven resimulation for testing connected and automated vehicle technologies.

Mcity
Nov 16, 2022
Series B financing closed

Company disclosed $30M Series B led by March Capital with participation from multiple investors and board participation for March Partner Julia Klein.

March Capital · Costanoa Ventures · Foundry Group · Calibrate Ventures · Ubiquity Ventures
Dec 09, 2020
Series A financing announced

Company disclosed $11M Series A to accelerate computer vision development, describing its synthetic data generation platform and API modes.

Foundry Group · Calibrate Ventures · Costanoa Ventures · Ubiquity Ventures · Toyota AI Ventures