# Worlds

> Worlds is a Dallas enterprise AI company that turns existing camera, sensor, and enterprise-system data into live spatial intelligence. Its platform supports industrial safety, measurement, tracking, and automation, with publicly named customers including Chevron, PETRONAS, Hillwood, and Metallus.

- **Founded:** 2020
- **Headquarters:** Dallas, United States
- **Founders:** Dave Copps (CEO and co-founder), Chris Rohde (President and co-founder), Ross Bates (CTO and co-founder)
- **Products:** Worlds NQ, Worlds RT, Operational AI platform, Forward Deployed Engineering, Iris
- **Notable:** Reported more than 400% year-over-year ARR growth in 2022., Selected for Microsoft for Startups Pegasus in 2024., Named among Darcy Partners’ Top 10 Oil & Gas Production Innovators for 2024.

## Products & services

- **Worlds NQ** — Model creation tools for clustering, segmenting, labeling, and preparing customer training data; supports visible, thermal, infrared, and X-ray imagery.
- **Worlds RT** — Real-time spatial inference and sensor fusion for tracking, measurement, zones, alerts, and enterprise automation; supports private-cloud, on-premise, edge, and air-gapped deployment.
- **Operational AI platform** — Live spatial record connecting physical observations to enterprise systems, search, monitoring, analysis, agents, and workflows.
- **Forward Deployed Engineering** — Customer-facing engineers configure repeatable platform capabilities for specific facilities and workflows.
- **Iris** — Conversational AI for asking questions about the physical environment; previewed publicly by Copps in a 2026 podcast discussion.

## Achievements

- Reported more than 400% year-over-year ARR growth in 2022.
- Selected for Microsoft for Startups Pegasus in 2024.
- Named among Darcy Partners’ Top 10 Oil & Gas Production Innovators for 2024.
- Reported 19% year-over-year reduction in total recordable incident rate in a warehouse vehicle-monitoring use case.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Announced participation in IMTS 2026 and a Future Travel Experience panel on physical AI and transportation.
- **2026-08** — Dilawar Syed joined as strategic advisor on enterprise market strategy and partnerships, announced August 5.
- **2026-06** — Microsoft featured Worlds’ operational intelligence approach; Copps described natural-language queries of live environments as already in production.
- **2025-02** — Announced recognition among Darcy Partners’ 2024 production innovators.

## Links

- Website: https://www.worlds.io/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/worldshq
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/worldsio
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/worlds.io/

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Last updated: 2026-10-05