Flexcompute raises strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures. The investment will fund research and GPU capacity; Flexcompute disclosed neither its size nor the identities of other participants. By RuntimeWire Staff - Published Oct 12th, 2026, 10:15am CT - 4 MIN READ - 4 SOURCES - VIA PR Newswire Listen to article. Flexcompute's co-founder, Zongfu Yu, built the company around a familiar engineering frustration: getting an answer from a simulation could take longer than thinking up the next design. On October 12th, Flexcompute announced a strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, the venture arm of... RuntimeWire, Inc. get virtually zero search traffic. Please consider sharing this story. Signal check Noise Signal Where does this story land? Drag the dial. The startup Flexcompute builds trusted, GPU-native physics simulation and AI automation for engineering teams. Flexcompute provides GPU-native physics simulation and AI-powered automation for teams designing aircraft, vehicles, chips, and photonics. Its platform combines geometry processing, AI-accelerated analysis, automated design optimization, and GPU-native solvers to deliver faster, traceable physics-based answers and build living "Physics Twins" of designs. The company says it is trusted by more than 250 companies and academic institutions, including Anduril, Coherent, Joby, Northrop Grumman, Samsung, and Xanadu. Its site reports more than 100 team members, 65 PhDs, and 20,000 users, and describes a cloud-first architecture designed to scale simulation resources elastically. Investors. Samsung Ventures Applied Ventures Stay on the wire. Breaking startup & AI news, funding scoops, and launches as they happen. Follow @runtimewire on Threads and LinkedIn.

Flexcompute, a Boston-based physics AI company, has raised strategic investment from Samsung Ventures and Applied Ventures, the venture arm of Applied Materials, among other investors. The amount was not disclosed. The money will fund work on the Physics World Model, AI that predicts how a design will behave in the real world by learning the laws of physics rather than only patterns in data. Flexcompute will use it to grow its research team, scale GPU compute, and extend the model across fluids, electromagnetics, structures, heat, and multiphysics couplings. Flexcompute says it solved a 5-billion degree-of-freedom warpage model of a full advanced semiconductor package within 2% of commercial finite-element results in minutes. Customers access the model through Physics Twins, and more than 250 companies use its tools.

Flexcompute collaborates with Starlab and Voyager on gpu-native simulation of critical Space Station Life Support System. Oct 06, 2026, 08:49 ET Leading CFD platform provider helps Starlab's life support team model airflow inside the commercial successor to the International Space Station BOSTON, Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ - Flexcompute, the physics company, today announced it is collaborating with Starlab Space and Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG) to simulate cabin airflow inside Starlab, the commercial space station designed to succeed the International Space Station (ISS). On a space station, air does not move on its own. In microgravity, warm air does not rise, and the carbon dioxide crew members exhale can linger around them unless the ventilation system keeps it moving. Starlab's Environmental Control and Life Support System (ECLSS) has to circulate fresh air through every part of the station and keep the crew comfortable. Because Starlab is designed to launch in a single flight, that design has to be right before it leaves the ground. Flexcompute used Flow360, its GPU-native computational fluid dynamics (CFD) platform, and GeometryAI, its automated geometry preparation engine, to model airflow across the full station interior. The first study closely matched Starlab's existing models in a fraction of the time traditional CFD tools take. The teams are now extending the work to model how the carbon dioxide crew members exhale moves through the cabin and how the life support system removes it. "Building a commercial space station takes partners who move at our pace," said Jonathan O'Neill, Atmosphere Management System Lead at Starlab Space. "Flexcompute's engineers paved new ground in cabin ventilation CFD. That level of expert support gives us more confidence as Starlab moves from design into production." "Life support airflow can't be fully tested on the ground, so simulation carries much of the design work," said Vera Yang, Co-founder and President of Flexcompute. "Working with Starlab's ECLSS team shows what GPU-native physics makes possible for commercial space: faster answers, earlier in design, so engineers can move forward with confidence." About Starlab Starlab Space is a U.S.-led, global joint venture among Voyager Technologies (NYSE: VOYG), Airbus, Mitsubishi Corporation, MDA Space, Palantir Technologies, and Space Applications Services, with strategic partners including Hilton, Journey, Northrop Grumman, and The Ohio State University. Starlab is developing a next-generation, AI-enabled commercial space station to ensure continued human presence in low Earth orbit and a seamless transition of microgravity science and research alongside the retirement of the International Space Station. Starlab's advanced, user-driven design and robust capabilities make it a premier platform for scientific discovery and technological advancement in space. For more information, visit starlab-space.com. About Flexcompute Flexcompute is a frontier AI lab building a Physics World Model that bridges data-driven AI and the laws of physics. Founded by researchers from Stanford and MIT, its team of more than 70 PhDs develop GPU-native solvers for fluid dynamics, electromagnetics, structures and heat, and integrate physics-based computation into AI agents through tokenized physics. This creates a verification layer that grounds AI predictions in trusted physics and helps engineers and AI agents evaluate how designs will perform before they are built. Engineering teams at more than 250 companies across aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, photonics and advanced manufacturing use Flexcompute to evaluate, explore and optimize designs, allowing them to innovate with confidence. Learn more at flexcompute.com. | Media Contacts | / | | Flexcompute | Starlab Space | | Silvie Casanova | Melissa Price | | [email protected] | [email protected] | | Voyager Technologies | / | | Nora Ellish | / | | [email protected] | / | SOURCE FlexCompute Inc.