# Tim Lupo

> Tim Lupo is the co-founder and CEO of Deeptune, a New York startup that builds high-fidelity reinforcement learning environments - which he calls 'training gyms' or 'flight simulators' - where AI agents learn to do real digital work across enterprise software like Salesforce and Slack. In early 2026 the company raised a $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz. Deeptune started life as an AI video-dubbing tool that landed Lupo and co-founder Lukas Schmit on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list, then pivoted to become RL infrastructure for frontier AI labs. A former founding engineer at Hebbia and a full-merit USC scholar, Lupo pitches the roughly 20-person, in-person team as one of the only early-stage places in New York to work on AGI.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at Deeptune
- **Organizations:** Deeptune, Hebbia, University of Southern California
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Full merit scholarship recipient (cited as top 0.2% of students), University of Southern California
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Deeptune, which raised a $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in early 2026, Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (Social Media) in 2024 for Deeptune's AI video-dubbing work, Founding engineer at Hebbia before starting his own company

## Career timeline

- **~2020** — Studies at the University of Southern California on a full merit scholarship.
- **~2021** — Joins AI search company Hebbia as a founding engineer.
- **2022** — Co-founds Deeptune with Lukas Schmit.
- **2023** — Deeptune, then an AI video-dubbing tool, earns Lupo and Schmit a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30 (Social Media).
- **2025** — Deeptune builds one of the first RL environments for AI agents; company pivots into 'training gyms' for frontier labs.
- **2026** — Raises a $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz to scale RL environments for computer-use and code.

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Deeptune, which raised a $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz in early 2026
- Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 (Social Media) in 2024 for Deeptune's AI video-dubbing work
- Founding engineer at Hebbia before starting his own company
- Full merit scholarship at USC, cited as top 0.2% of students
- Built hundreds of RL 'training gyms' used by leading AI labs, contributing to advances in AI computer-use benchmarks like OSWorld

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Deeptune announces a $43M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with 776, Abstract Ventures, Inspired Capital, and angels including Noam Brown, Brendan Foody, and Yash Patil.
- **2026-01** — Series A round closes (Jan 28, 2026) to scale RL environments for computer-use and code.

## Links

- Website: https://deeptune.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timlup/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/timlup
- GitHub: https://github.com/timnlupo
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timlupo/

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Last updated: 2026-07-08