SRI Capital Leads $2M Pre-Seed Round in DreamVu to Accelerate Physical AI Data Infrastructure

PHILADELPHIA, PA — March 31, 2026 — SRI Capital today announced that it has led a $2 million pre-seed equity round in DreamVu, a physical AI data infrastructure company that captures 360° omnidirectional 3D video to train humanoid robots and world models. The round included participation from Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania and angel investors Sashi Reddi and Robert Ciaruffoli. The capital will accelerate DreamVu’s omnidirectional capture platform and foundation model research.

“DreamVu is solving a fundamental data bottleneck holding back physical AI,” said Doc Parghi, Managing Partner at SRI Capital. “Their combination of breakthrough optics, proprietary capture technology, and foundation model research puts them at the center of the most important shift in AI. We are proud to lead this round and partner with the team as they build the data infrastructure for the humanoid robotics era.”

About DreamVu: DreamVu is a data infrastructure company for physical AI. Headquartered in Philadelphia with R&D operations in Hyderabad, India, DreamVu delivers 360° omnidirectional 3D training data and foundation models for world models, vision-language-action (VLA) systems, and humanoid robotics. Learn more at dreamvu.ai.

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