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7 days ago
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Mecka's $60 million Series B: Sequoia, NVIDIA and Samsung back a robot-data supplier claiming a $100 million revenue run rate

Mecka said in a company post dated Oct 7 that it raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, with NVIDIA, M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung joining and Kindred, Framework Ventures and Neo returning. The company, which records human demonstrations with its own sensor rigs and sells the data and post-trained models, says it passed a $100 million revenue run rate in June and aims for $300 million by year end.

1 sourceMeckaNVIDIAMultiply LabsImitation LearningRobot Foundation Models
7 days ago
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Multiply Labs raises $75 million led by Patrick Soon-Shiong to scale robots that make cell and gene therapies

Multiply Labs said in a press release on Oct 6 that it raised a $75 million Series B led by Patrick Soon-Shiong, with AstraZeneca, Lingotto, Teradyne and Strange Ventures joining as new investors. The San Francisco company, which automates GMP manufacturing of cell and gene therapies, said total funding now exceeds $100 million and the money goes to manufacturing capacity, product work and engineering, regulatory and commercial hiring.

1 sourceMultiply LabsTeradyneSereact
9 days ago
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SafeWorld leaves stealth with $12.2 million from Shine Capital and a16z speedrun to stress-test robots around people in simulation

SafeWorld said in a press release on Oct 5 that it emerged from stealth with a $12.2 million seed round co-led by Shine Capital and a16z speedrun, joined by Box Group, the Carnegie Mellon University Endowment, Innovation Endeavors and SV Angel. Co-founded by Carnegie Mellon safe-AI professor Ding Zhao, it sells software that runs robots through thousands of simulated encounters with reactive human motion before and after deployment.

2 sourcesSafeWorldRobrosSim-to-Real TransferSynthetic Data Generation
13 days ago
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Columbia spinout Tangent Robotics raises $4.5 million to give factory robots a sense of touch

Tangent Robotics, a New York company spun out of Columbia Engineering, said on 30 September 2026 it raised a $4.5 million pre-seed round co-led by Fly Ventures and Toyota Ventures. It is building robot hands with light-based touch sensors and learning methods for fine assembly tasks such as connector mating and gear meshing.

1 sourceTangent RoboticsWonik RoboticsSanctuary AITactile SensingDexterous Manipulation
13 days ago
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Gradient leads US$7.6 million round for Feather, which sells a US$29,990 two-armed robot and lets buyers pick the brain

Feather Robotics, a US startup selling an open-hardware wheeled robot with two arms for US$29,990, raised US$7.6 million in a round led by Gradient, the lead investor said on 30 September 2026. Gradient said Feather has already passed US$1 million in revenue, with robots at work in manufacturing and food service.

3 sourcesFeather Robotics1X TechnologiesInbolt
15 days ago
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General Intuition raises $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation, betting gameplay clips can teach robots to act

General Intuition, which trains AI models on action-labelled gameplay clips from the Medal platform, said on 29 September 2026 that it had raised $220 million at a $6.2 billion valuation from investors including Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst. The figure is 2.7 times the $2.3 billion it disclosed with its Series A 96 days earlier, and the company has opened a waitlist for partners in robotics, simulation and games.

4 sourcesGeneral IntuitionSkild AIPhysical IntelligenceWorld ModelsImitation Learning
26 days ago
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Watney raises $80 million Series A to put dexterous robots on hyperscale data-centre floors

Watney has raised an $80 million Series A co-led by the Valor Atreides AI Fund and Hummingbird Ventures, taking its total funding past $100 million. The San Francisco company runs dexterous robots for hyperscale cloud operators and claims better than 99.99% reliability over hundreds of thousands of operating hours, but it disclosed no customer names, valuation or founders.

5 sourcesWatneyHumanoidHoliday RoboticsDexterous ManipulationTeleoperation
29 days ago
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Shipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering

Houston-based Persona AI disclosed in an SEC Form D filed on September 14, 2026 that it has sold $65,363,626 of a planned $141,964,814 private offering to 46 investors, with the first sale on August 28. The company, which builds humanoid robots for shipyard welding and other skilled trades and has a deployment agreement with HD Hyundai, raised $27 million in a pre-seed round in May 2025.

7 sourcesPersona AIApptronikAgility RoboticsDexterous ManipulationTeleoperation
Sep 5, 2026
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Agility Robotics files S-4 for Nasdaq listing, showing $1.8 million in 2025 sales against a $138 million loss

Churchill Capital Corp XI filed a Form S-4 with the SEC on September 4, 2026 for its $2.5 billion merger with Agility Robotics, the maker of the Digit humanoid, which plans to trade on Nasdaq as AGLT. The filing discloses 2025 net sales of $1.78 million, a net loss of $138.1 million, a $100 million SAFE raised in July 2026 and a single customer commitment of $300 million for Digit v5.

9 sourcesAgility RoboticsFigure AISkild AIElectric ActuatorsBattery Systems
Jul 15, 2026
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Toyota research spinout Walden Robotics launches with $300 million seed at a $1.1 billion valuation

Walden Robotics, spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026, emerged from stealth on July 15, 2026 with a $300 million seed round at a $1.1 billion valuation co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital. The Cambridge, Massachusetts company says its robots, driven by large behavior models, have been doing production work at a Toyota plant in North America since February, and on July 28 it added Samsung SDS as a manufacturing partner.

5 sourcesWalden RoboticsNVIDIASkild AIRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Jun 9, 2026
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Standard Bots raises US$200 million at a US$1 billion valuation to build AI-taught factory robots in New York

Standard Bots said on 9 June 2026 that it had raised a US$200 million Series C led by RoboStrategy, with existing investors including General Catalyst, at a valuation of US$1 billion. The Glen Cove, New York, robot maker is expanding its plant to 70,000 square feet and says it is on pace to supply 10% of new US industrial robot deployments by 2027.

3 sourcesStandard BotsAmazonSamsung ElectronicsElectric ActuatorsImitation Learning
Mar 31, 2026
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Saronic raises $1.75 billion at a $9.25 billion valuation to turn uncrewed warships into a shipbuilding business

Austin-based Saronic Technologies said on March 31, 2026 it had closed a $1.75 billion Series D led by Kleiner Perkins at a $9.25 billion valuation, about 2.3 times the $4 billion set in its February 2025 Series C. The autonomous surface vessel maker is putting shipyards at the centre of its plan, including a $300 million expansion in Louisiana and a planned next-generation yard called Port Alpha.

5 sourcesSaronic TechnologiesShield AIFleet Orchestration SoftwareEdge AI Compute
Mar 26, 2026
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Shield AI raises $2 billion at a $12.7 billion valuation and buys Aechelon, the simulation house behind the Pentagon's combat test range

Shield AI is raising $1.5 billion in Series G equity led by Advent International at a $12.7 billion post-money valuation, plus $500 million of fixed-return preferred equity from Blackstone funds. The San Diego company is also buying Aechelon Technology, the simulation provider for the Pentagon's Joint Simulation Environment, to train its Hivemind AI pilot in synthetic worlds.

8 sourcesShield AISaronic TechnologiesSynthetic Data GenerationSim-to-Real Transfer
Mar 13, 2026
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Sunday raises $165 million at a $1.15 billion valuation to move its glove-trained Memo robot from demos into homes

Sunday, the Silicon Valley developer of the Memo household robot, said on 12 March 2026 that it had raised an oversubscribed $165 million Series B at a $1.15 billion valuation, led by Coatue, with Coatue's Thomas Laffont joining the board. The company trains Memo on data from people wearing its Skill Capture Glove instead of teleoperating robots, plans an invite-only home beta from the autumn and expects to ship at scale in 2027-2028.

4 sourcesSunday1X TechnologiesSkild AIRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Mar 12, 2026
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Rivian spinout Mind Robotics raises $500 million Series A, and Rivian books a $506 million gain on its stake

Mind Robotics, the industrial AI robotics company founded and led by Rivian chief executive RJ Scaringe, said on March 11, 2026 that Accel and Andreessen Horowitz co-led a $500 million Series A, about four months after a $115 million seed. Rivian's filings show it deconsolidated the start-up in March, valued its remaining 37.6% at about $569 million using the Series A share price and recorded a $506 million gain, which by MEKAWIRE arithmetic implies an equity value near $1.51 billion.

9 sourcesMind RoboticsRivianSkild AIRobot Foundation ModelsImitation Learning
Mar 10, 2026
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Rhoda AI leaves stealth with a $450 million Series A to run factory robots on a model that learns from internet video

Palo Alto start-up Rhoda AI emerged on 10 March 2026 with a $450 million Series A from Khosla Ventures, Mayfield, Temasek and six other institutions, plus John Doerr. Its Direct Video Action model predicts video of a task and converts it into robot actions, and the company says new tasks can need as little as ten hours of teleoperation data. No lead investor, valuation or customer was disclosed.

6 sourcesRhoda AISkild AIMind RoboticsRobot Foundation ModelsWorld Models
Feb 11, 2026
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Apptronik raises $520 million Series A-X at triple its earlier valuation, taking the round past $935 million as it readies a new Apollo

Austin humanoid maker Apptronik said on 11 February 2026 that it had closed a $520 million Series A-X extension priced at three times its Series A valuation, lifting total Series A funding above $935 million. John Deere, AT&T Ventures and Qatar Investment Authority joined returning backers B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz and PEAK6, and the company said the money will pay for Apollo production, training and data facilities and a new robot due in 2026.

5 sourcesApptronikGoogleGoogle DeepMindVLARobot Foundation Models
Feb 4, 2026
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Bedrock Robotics raises $270 million at a $1.75 billion valuation to take excavators operator-less in 2026

Bedrock Robotics, founded in 2024 by former Waymo engineers, raised a $270 million Series B co-led by CapitalG and Valor Atreides AI Fund, taking total funding past $350 million. The San Francisco company retrofits existing excavators with autonomy and is targeting its first operator-less deployments this year, a month after Caterpillar unveiled its own construction autonomy line.

4 sourcesBedrock RoboticsNVIDIASkild AIFleet Orchestration Software