Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
Mecka AI raises $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital
- NVIDIA, M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung join returning institutional backers.
- Tony Xu, Frank Slootman and Milan Kovac also participated.
Quartermaster raises $100M Series B and secures $40M debt facility
- Overmatch Ventures and First Round Capital participated in the equity round, while Stifel provided the separate debt facility.
- SmartMast was installed on more than 650 vessels across 25 countries, with over 800 systems shipped.
- Quartermaster had doubled manufacturing capacity and was moving from individual-vessel installations toward fleet-level deployments.
Realset AI and Flatkey announce joint USD10 million Series A
- Realset plans to expand its network of real workplaces and studio environments for expert data capture.
- Its embodied-data work includes egocentric and bimanual teleoperation demonstrations from homes, warehouses and light assembly lines.
- The company plans an open household-manipulation benchmark for Q4 2026, including evaluation of open-source vision-language-action policies.
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Embra AI raises $1M pre-seed for robotics data infrastructure
- The platform focuses on dataset discovery, evaluation and sourcing for robotics developers.
- The company says proceeds will support dataset-evaluation tooling and expansion of its contributor and robotics-partner network.
- The round brings Embra AI's reported total funding to $1M; the announcement does not name investors.
Transfyr raises $25M seed financing
- General Catalyst led the round.
- Lux Capital, Breakout Ventures, Factory, Neo, SV Angel, MVP Ventures, Underscore VC and Lyda Hill participated.
- The platform captures operator action, environmental context and equipment telemetry to support reproducibility and robotic automation.
Axis Robotics raises $12M seed for physical-AI data infrastructure
- Hack VC led the $12 million seed round, with Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures and angel investors participating.
- Axis said the financing would support its community-driven data engine for physical-AI training and continuous policy improvement.
- The company reported more than 100,000 contributors at announcement; that figure remains a company disclosure.
Lightwheel raises RMB 1B strategic financing for physical-AI infrastructure
- Capital is earmarked for robot-learning data, synthetic and simulation data, capability evaluation infrastructure and real-world scenario deployment tooling.
- Investors include Zhongguancun Science City Fund, Sichuan Development Science and Technology Innovation Fund, Shandong Development Venture Capital, Giant Network and other industrial and financial investors.
XDOF raises $70M for robot data infrastructure
- The capital supports infrastructure for the robot-training data feedback loop, including data pipelines, collection tools and annotation systems.
- XDOF works with about 20 customers, including several frontier AI labs.
- XDOF launched in October 2024 to provide a data ecosystem for companies pursuing robotics models.
Vision Lab raises USD 6M seed round for robotics factory data
- Race Capital led the round, with participation from Y Combinator, Foothill Ventures and 500 Global.
- Vision Lab says it provides real-world industrial data to frontier AI labs and robotics companies through a network of more than 2,000 factories.
- The funding is aimed at factory-network expansion, data pipeline infrastructure and engineering and operations hiring.
Mecka discloses US$60 million across Series A and follow-on financing
- Framework Ventures led both financings, with participants including Menlo Ventures, SV Angel and Kindred Ventures.
- The collection platform uses body sensors, phones and custom hardware to capture human motion and task demonstrations for robot learning.
Human Archive raises $8.2M for physical-AI training data
- The funding round totaled $8.2 million.
- Investors included Wing VC, NVP Capital, YC, and angels.
- Human Archive had more than 1,000 active headsets and more than 50 devices collecting data.
Lightwheel closes undisclosed Ant-led financing at over US$2B valuation
- New participants included CICC Capital, Greater Bay Area Homeland Investments, Semir Fangdao Fund, Shandong Fuhong, Xinneng Investment and Linxin Investment.
- Returning investors 37 Interactive Entertainment, Guofang Innovation, Daohe Long-term Investment and Dingshi Asset Management also participated above their prior allocations.
- The round amount was not disclosed; the over-US$2 billion valuation is a reported lower bound with no pre-money or post-money basis.
Quartermaster raises $43M Series A for maritime sensing network
- TMV, Steel Atlas, BoxGroup, Operator Partners, Shorewind Capital and David Adelman participated.
- The capital supported expansion into additional vessel classes and regions alongside analytics, engineering and product hiring.
- At the announcement, Quartermaster reported more than 600 active vessels across 25 countries.
Config raises USD 27M seed round for robotics data infrastructure
- Samsung Venture Investment led the USD 27 million seed round, with ZER01NE Ventures, LG Tech Ventures and SKT America among the strategic participants.
- The financing valued Config at more than USD 200 million and brought its cumulative capital raised to USD 35 million.
- Config plans to scale robotics-data operations, grow its enterprise platform and launch a cloud Robot-as-a-Service product.
Nomadic raises $8.4M seed led by TQ Ventures
- TechCrunch reported that Nomadic raised an $8.4 million seed round at a $50 million post-money valuation.
- The company said the capital would be used to onboard more customers and continue refining its platform for turning robot and vehicle video into structured, searchable datasets.
- The report also noted customer usage across companies including Zoox, Mitsubishi Electric, Natix Network, and Zendar.
Deepen AI announces seed round led by Majlis Advisory to scale sensor-fusion ground truth for physical AI
- Deepen AI announced a seed round led by Majlis Advisory to expand product development and go-to-market for physical-AI tooling.
- The round was positioned around sensor-fusion ground truth, calibration, validation, and safety-critical data workflows for robotics and autonomy.
- Capital was framed as scaling Deepen's infrastructure layer rather than funding a single product drop.
Foxglove raises $40M at a $150M pre-money valuation
- Bessemer Venture Partners led the Series B, with Eclipse Ventures, Amplify Partners and Icehouse Ventures participating.
- Foxglove CEO Adrian Macneil told The Information that the financing valued the company at $150 million before the new capital.
- The capital supports Foxglove's data-management, observability and synchronized replay platform for robotics and autonomous-system developers.
Litmus secures additional strategic funding led by Insight Partners
- Insight Partners led the investment.
- Munich Re Ventures participated through HSB Fund II.
micro1 completes Series A financing
- The company said its data platform supports training frontier AI models.
- Founder Ali Ansari announced the financing on micro1’s official website.
- The funding event predates the company’s later dedicated robotics-data expansion.
Mecka AI raises $8 million seed round led by Neo
- SV Angel, A-Star Capital, Cade, Timeless and Offline VC participated in the round.
- Custom collection programmes use dedicated recording rigs; smartphone users can contribute everyday task demonstrations.
BrightAI raises $51M Series A for physical AI infrastructure
- Khosla Ventures and Inspired Capital co-led the round, with BoxGroup, Marlinspike, VSC Ventures, Rsquared VC, Cooley LLP and others participating.
- The financing brought BrightAI total funding to $78 million.
- The capital supports expansion into new industries, customers and engineering and operations hiring from a new San Francisco headquarters.
Gaia AI closes $3M pre-seed round for forestry data platform
- E14 Fund led the pre-seed round.
- Ubiquity Ventures, Space Capital and SOSV's HAX participated.
- Gaia AI planned to expand deployments of its forest-measurement backpack and data platform.
Synthesis AI raises $17M Series A for synthetic-data platform
- Sorenson Ventures and Strawberry Creek Ventures joined the round.
- Existing investors Bee Partners, PJC, iRobot, Boom Capital and Kubera also participated.
- The company planned to expand its platform, team and international market reach.
Rendered.ai raises $6M seed round for synthetic-data platform
- The $6 million seed round was led by Space Capital, with Tectonic Ventures, Congruent Ventures, Union Labs and Uncorrelated Ventures participating.
- Rendered.ai described its platform as simulation-based engineered data for industries including autonomous vehicles, robotics, life sciences and satellite technology.
- The capital was tied to staffing and operations scale-up for its synthetic-data platform-as-a-service.
Terradepth raises USD 8M for autonomous ocean data robots
- Seagate Technology led the round.
- The company planned to demonstrate its autonomous hybrid vehicles in open water before scaling an ocean-data fleet.
- The capital supports maritime autonomy, underwater robotics or marine inspection workflows as Terradepth moves toward broader commercial use.