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Parametric

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Physical businesses that run themselves

Fall 2025Founded 20257 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA
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Parametric builds autonomous physical businesses. We're starting with a laundromat, designed from the ground up for autonomy. Dirty laundry in, folded clean laundry out. Rather than retrofit human workflows with robots, we redesign processes with robots as first class citizens.

Founders ยท 2

Cody Swain
Cody SwainCo-Founder & CEO
Meta

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 Newsom
John NewsomCo-Founder & 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.

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