Eka Robotics
Robotics startup building a vision-force-action (VFA) model, trained with reinforcement learning in simulation, for fast dexterous manipulation.
Eka Robotics has raised $150M across 1 disclosed round since Oct 20, 2026; the latest round, Series A, was announced on Oct 20, 2026. Data as of Oct 25, 2026.
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- Robotics funding Oct 19 to 28: USD 1.63bn in 10 days, 88% of all of Q3
Robotics startups announced USD 1.63 billion in 16 rounds with disclosed amounts between Oct 19 and Oct 28, 2026, according to MEKAWIRE's database of primary-sourced rounds, equal to 88% of the USD 1.85 billion recorded for the whole third quarter. Bedrock Robotics' USD 600 million Series C is 37% of the total, six rounds of USD 100 million or more make up 80%, and US companies took 86%. MEKAWIRE's data report explains where the money went and how much of the jump is real.
Mentioned - Eka Robotics confirms $150M Series A led by a16z and F-Prime for force-based robot model
Eka Robotics said in a blog post on Oct 20 that it raised a $150 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime, with seed leads Obvious Ventures and E14 Fund returning and MFV Partners, Bison Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, Samsung Next and several Fortune 500 strategic investors joining. The startup trains a vision-force-action model with reinforcement learning in simulation and says its robots pick unseen objects at 1,500 operations an hour, about 2.5 times a human baseline of roughly 600. A $1.45 billion valuation has been reported by the press; Eka has not stated it.
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