Trace Machina secures funding and launches NativeLink out of stealth to deliver simulation infrastructure for safety-critical technologies

Today marks an exciting milestone for Trace Machina as we officially come out of stealth mode and secured $4.7 million in seed funding to drive our mission forward.

First, I am immensely grateful for the work that has been put in by the entire Trace Machina team to get us here today. I’d like to thank our lead investor, Van Jones from Wellington Management for believing in our vision from the start. In addition to our partners at Samsung Next, Green Bay Ventures, and Verissimo Ventures for everything they have done. Instrumental angel investors and mentors including Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, Mitch Wainer, Co-founder of DigitalOcean, Gert Lackriet, Director of Applied Machine Learning at Amazon; and other industry leaders from OpenAI and MongoDB.

Why we started Trace Machina

The inception of Trace Machina originated from a shared vision among a group of passionate engineers and product leaders who have experience developing cutting-edge technologies and solving complex problems in AI, robotics, and autonomous systems at companies including Apple and Google. 

Nathan Bruer, my Co-Founder, and I have always been driven by the challenge of pushing the boundaries of technology. Nathan’s work at Google X on autonomous driving software and my contributions to MongoDB Atlas Vector Search and other major open source projects laid the foundation for what would become Trace Machina. We realized there was a significant gap in the market for a robust simulation infrastructure that could support the development of advanced systems. This realization led to the birth of Trace Machina.

We are committed to developing tools that enable teams working on advanced technologies like physical AI, specialized chip design, robotics, and autonomous mobility. Our mission is to enable the next generation of builders to create technology that has previously been unattainable or uneconomical. 

Launching NativeLink

NativeLink, our first product, embodies this mission. It is an open-source, Rust-based simulation infrastructure platform designed to provide an advanced simulation environment for technologies where safety is paramount.

NativeLink is the only backend for Bazel, Buck2, and Reclient written in native code, tailored to handle large objects and intricate systems, across native and interpreted programming languages. 

From self-driving cars to aviation and robotics, NativeLink brings AI to the edge, turning local devices into supercomputers and drastically reducing cloud costs and accelerating builds.

NativeLink powers over one billion requests per month already for some of the largest companies in the world providing speed and reliability in your production workloads that unlocks possibilities simply unavailable with any previously existing solution.

What's next

As we launch out of stealth, we are excited to share our vision and invite the community to join us in building the future.

NativeLink is free and open source forever. With over a thousand stars on GitHub and contributions from engineers at Tesla, General Motors, Samsung, and others, we will continue to make NativeLink the best in class for safety-critical technologies. Our focus will be on improving its capabilities and expanding its adoption across various industries.

Building a strong, collaborative community is at the heart of our mission. We encourage developers, engineers, and researchers to join our Slack, contribute to our projects, and share their feedback. Together, we can drive innovation and create a safer, more advanced future.

We’re already working on additional tools and infrastructure solutions to address the evolving needs of developers in AI and autonomous systems. Stay tuned for more announcements as we continue to innovate and push the boundaries of what’s possible.

Trace Machina is more than just a company; it’s a movement. We invite you to be a part of this exciting journey as we strive to revolutionize the development of safety-critical technologies.

Thank you for your support. 

Marcus Eagan

CEO and Co-Founder, Trace Machina

For more information about Trace Machina and NativeLink, visit our website and GitHub repository.