# Deeptune

> Deeptune is a New York AI company that builds high-fidelity simulation environments - 'training gyms' - where AI agents practice real digital work such as accounting, customer support, DevOps, and spreadsheet and CRM tasks before being deployed. Its reinforcement-learning environments recreate the day-to-day software of roles like accountants, lawyers, and engineers so agents can learn multi-step 'computer use' the way a pilot trains in a flight simulator. Founded in 2025 by Tim Lupo and Lukas Schmit, Deeptune raised a $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in March 2026 and was acquired by AI unicorn Mercor in July 2026.

- **Founded:** 2025
- **Headquarters:** New York, New York, United States
- **Founders:** Tim Lupo (Co-founder & CEO), Lukas Schmit (Co-founder)
- **Team size:** ~10-20 (in-person, New York)
- **Products:** Training Gyms (RL environments), Environment platform & datasets, Role simulations
- **Notable:** Raised $43M Series A led by a16z in March 2026 (total funding ~$49.1M)., Built hundreds of high-fidelity RL training environments for leading AI labs., Environments contributed to recent advances in AI agents' 'computer use' capabilities.

## Products & services

- **Training Gyms (RL environments)** — High-fidelity simulations of digital workplaces - modeled after software like Slack, Salesforce, Excel and DevOps/monitoring tools - where AI agents practice multi-step tasks and improve through reinforcement learning.
- **Environment platform & datasets** — 100+ ready-made environments bundling the problems, datasets, and infrastructure needed to train and evaluate agents, integrable in a few lines of code.
- **Role simulations** — Environments that recreate the day-to-day workflows of roles such as accountants, customer support reps, lawyers, and software/DevOps engineers so agents learn job-specific 'computer use'.

## Achievements

- Raised $43M Series A led by a16z in March 2026 (total funding ~$49.1M).
- Built hundreds of high-fidelity RL training environments for leading AI labs.
- Environments contributed to recent advances in AI agents' 'computer use' capabilities.
- Acquired by AI unicorn Mercor in July 2026, roughly four months after the Series A.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Acquired by AI unicorn Mercor; entire team relocating to Mercor's New York office and environments folded into Mercor's reinforcement-learning stack.
- **2026-03** — Closed $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz with 776, Abstract Ventures, Inspired Capital and angels.

## Links

- Website: https://deeptune.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/trydeeptune
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/deeptune_ai

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Last updated: 2026-07-21