Plato raises $16 million to expand simulated workplaces for AI training
Plato Technologies announced a $16 million Series A led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Gradient Ventures, Transpose Platform and Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman. The round brings total funding to $19 million following an earlier seed investment. Plato builds realistic, repeatable workplace simulations in which AI models can practice using software, responding to changing conditions and completing multistep tasks before operating in live enterprise systems. The company says it will use the new capital to expand its library of real-world work experience, compensate professionals who recreate their jobs inside simulated environments and deploy agents on real tasks to collect additional training experience. Founded in 2025 by Robert Farlow and Pranav Putta, Plato is based in San Francisco and positions its platform as infrastructure for AI laboratories that need high-fidelity environments and feedback data. The announcement does not provide a hiring target, current headcount, valuation or detailed allocation between engineering, research, operations and domain-expert programs, so the near-term organizational scale remains unclear.
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