Jacomo Corbo

Jacomo Corbo is CEO and co-founder of PhysicsX, the London physics-AI company that closed a $300m Series c at a $2.4bn valuation in June 2026, led by Singapore's Temasek. Corbo joined as co-CEO in February 2023, taking over day-to-day leadership as Robin Tuluie moved to a chairman role. The company has since doubled its headcount to 350, tripled its booked revenue, and expanded its customer base across aerospace, automotive, semiconductor and energy sectors.

Corbo holds a PhD in computer Science from Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, where he researched algorithmic game theory under David Parkes, and a BEng in electrical engineering from McGill University. His applied career started at Renault F1 as a race strategist during the championship years of 2005 and 2006. In 2009 he co-founded QuantumBlack, an advanced analytics company that began in motorsport and expanded to industrial clients before McKinsey acquired it around 2015. As Chief Scientist at QuantumBlack and a McKinsey Partner, he scaled the practice to over 1,500 technical practitioners. He subsequently held a Canada Research Chair at the University of Ottawa and a senior fellowship at the Wharton School.

At PhysicsX, Corbo's technical approach centres on geometric deep learning applied to physics simulations, using neural operators that learn continuous function-to-function mappings governed by physical laws. The company's LGM-Aero model was trained on over 25 million geometries and tens of thousands of CFD simulations. Corbo frames these as "large physics models", the engineering-simulation analogue of large language models.