Meet the founders

Leaders in robotics, AI, and computer vision working together to make robot intelligence more human.

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Nicolas Duval

Co-Founder & CEO

Nicolas is a repeat founder with over two decades of experience in software architecture, product design, and AI innovation. His career began in the French defense industry before taking on leadership roles at Autodesk and Adobe. At Adobe, he helped shape Adobe Express, leading efforts across cloud infrastructure, CAD, and generative AI. As Principal Engineer at Autodesk, he led the modernization of Tinkercad and contributed to the Forge platform. Nicolas now leads Synthium's vision and business strategy, leveraging deep technical and entrepreneurial expertise to scale human-in-the-loop systems and synthetic data platforms for robotics.

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Nicolas Savva

Co-Founder & CTO

Nicolas is a repeat founder and internationally recognized expert in computer graphics and computer vision. He holds a MS/PhD from Cornell University, where he also served as a lecturer. His research contributions span neural image captioning, photorealistic rendering, and energy simulation. A recipient of the prestigious O-1 U.S. visa for individuals of extraordinary ability, Nicolas also led advanced visualization projects at Autodesk. At Synthium, he drives the technical roadmap, building foundational AI infrastructure and pursuing novel IP to ensure the platform remains at the cutting edge of robotics and simulation.