Origin Lab

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Location San Francisco, CA
Founded 2024
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised $8M

Founders

Anne-Margot Rodde Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Antoine Gargot Co-Founder
Colin Carrier Co-Founder

About

Origin Lab is a startup connecting video game studios with AI labs that need physical-world training data for world models, founded by Anne-Margot Rodde (Co-CEO), Antoine Gargot, and Colin Carrier 1. The company argues that game engines and gameplay data are uniquely valuable for training AI systems that need to understand physical dynamics 1. The $8M Seed announced May 13, 2026 was led by Lightspeed Ventures with participation from SV Angel, Eniac, Seven Stars, FPV, and angels Kevin Lin (Twitch co-founder) and Kyle Vogt (Cruise founder) 1.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-05-13 Seed $8M Lightspeed Ventures SV Angel, Eniac, Seven Stars, FPV, Kevin Lin, Kyle Vogt 1

What Investors Say

Faraz Fatemi, Partner at Lightspeed Ventures, stated: “We’ve seen how sharp the revenue scaling can be for data vendors serving major labs.” 1

What Founders Say

Anne-Margot Rodde, Co-CEO, said: “The AI systems being built now need to understand how the physical world works and how things move. That data essentially lives in video games.” 1

She added: “Video game industry was sitting on incredibly valuable data, but there was no real way or infrastructure to connect AI labs and the video game industry.” 1

Sources


  1. TechCrunch, “Origin Lab raises $8M to help video game companies sell data to world model builders,” May 13, 2026. Accessed May 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/13/origin-lab-raises-8m-to-help-video-game-companies-sell-data-to-world-model-builders/