Verified Events
DateTypeCompanyHeadlineSegment
Minerva Humanoids raises approximately $10M pre-seed for hazardous-work robots
- Long Journey Ventures and Credo Ventures co-led the round, alongside participants including MVP Ventures, Kaya, Compound and Hugging Face.
- Remote specialists use a VR headset for critical manipulation while Minerva Intelligence manages balance, fall recovery and navigation.
- Initial prototypes are manufactured and assembled in Germany, with software and AI primarily developed in the United States; paid pilots begin in fall 2026.
Feather Robotics discloses pre-seed financing
- Builder Capital, Geometry, SEED Innovations and Virgo VC also participated.
- SEED Innovations said its $1 million commitment, announced in May, converts at a qualifying round or liquidity event subject to a $60 million valuation cap.
- Feather said it had delivered its first customer order within nine months of founding and surpassed $1 million in revenue.
NEC Orchestrating Future Fund invests in Dexmate
- The investment covers Dexmate’s Vega humanoid robot and integrated Physical AI development platform.
- NEC and Dexmate said they will explore collaboration across a range of real-world Physical AI applications.
- Neither an investment amount nor a customer deployment or commercial order was announced.
Avatar Robotics raises $6.5 million seed round
- AlleyCorp led the seed; defy.vc led an earlier pre-seed, with Headline, Henry Ford III, Refashiond, Paul Vogel, Jack Huffard and Samuel Udotong also participating.
- Avatar said its robots had packed, sorted and helped ship more than 900,000 products in live customer environments since beginning operations in December 2025.
- The company had begun a post-pilot expansion with a multi-billion-dollar warehouse operator for sorting and picking, with additional deployments underway.
Walden Robotics raises $300M seed funding at $1.1B valuation
- Toyota Motor Corporation, Toyota Invention Partners, Toyota Ventures and Deviation Capital co-led the round.
- NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Prologis Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures and financial investors also participated.
- Walden spun out of Toyota Research Institute in January 2026 and says its robots have performed production work at a Toyota North American plant since February.
Sunday raises $165M Series B at $1.15B valuation
- Coatue led the round, with Bain Capital Ventures, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Tiger Global, Benchmark, Conviction and Xtal Ventures participating; Coatue’s Thomas Laffont joined the board.
- Sunday said the financing supports Memo’s move from demonstrations toward a household beta planned for autumn 2026.
- The company is building an integrated stack spanning Skill Capture Glove data collection, model training, robot hardware and manufacturing.
LG Technology Ventures makes a strategic investment in Dexmate
- LG CNS said it invested in Dexmate through LG Technology Ventures to strengthen hardware capabilities for industrial humanoid deployments.
- The article described Dexmate's wheel-based humanoids as research hardware already used by global robot-brain developers and noted more than 36 degrees of freedom, around 15 kilogram arm payload, and long-duration operation.
- LG CNS said the investment would support a full-stack RX offering that combines Dexmate hardware with robot foundation models and an operations and training platform for industrial sites.
Apptronik raises $520M Series A-X extension for Apollo humanoid production
- Existing investors included B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz and PEAK6; new investors included AT&T Ventures, John Deere and Qatar Investment Authority.
- Apptronik tied the capital to Apollo production, commercial deployments and robot-training infrastructure.
- The company described total Series A financing as more than $935 million and total capital raised as nearly $1 billion.
Sunday Robotics emerges from stealth with $35M seed funding
- Sunday Robotics emerged from stealth with $35M in funding led by Benchmark and Conviction.
- The company is developing Memo, a household robot trained on real home-task data collected through Sunday's Skill Capture Glove.
- The funding supported the company's push from stealth into beta planning for household deployments.
Figure exceeds $1B in Series C commitments at $39B valuation
- On 16 September 2025, Figure disclosed more than $1 billion in committed Series C capital at a $39 billion post-money valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital.
- Figure linked the financing to scaling Helix, expanding BotQ manufacturing, and placing general-purpose humanoid robots into homes and commercial operations.
- The plan also includes GPU infrastructure and human-video and multimodal data collection to improve Helix's perception, reasoning, and control.
Agility Robotics adds NVentures to Series C
- Agility announced NVentures' participation on September 10, 2025.
- NVIDIA simulation and AI tools, including Isaac Lab, support Digit development and deployment.
- Humanoid Global separately closed an indirect investment in Agility through a single-asset vehicle; it is not listed here as a Series C participant.
$187M Series A values Foundation Robotics at $1.32B
- The Series A provided $187 million of capital.
- The financing established a $1.32 billion post-money valuation.
- Capital supports development and commercialisation of Foundation Robotics' humanoid platform.
Persona AI secures $27M pre-seed for humanoid robot development
- The oversubscribed pre-seed round raised $27 million for humanoid robot development and deployment.
- The announcement ties the funding to shipbuilding and industrial manufacturing use cases.
- Persona also cited an HD Hyundai shipyard deployment agreement as part of the commercial context.
Fauna Robotics discloses $30 million raised to date
- Backers included Kleiner Perkins, Quiet Capital and Lux Capital.
- The capital supports robots intended to live, work and play alongside people.
The Bot Company raises $150M at $2B valuation
- Greenoaks led the $150 million financing.
- The completed round valued the company at $2 billion.
- The round followed the company’s $150 million initial financing in May 2024.
Apptronik adds $53M to bring Series A total to $403M
- The additional close contributed $53 million, taking the Series A total from $350 million to $403 million.
- Mercedes-Benz, Japan Post Capital, ARK Invest, Helium-3, Magnetar, RyderVentures and a Korea Investment Partners-led syndicate joined the round.
- Apptronik tied the financing to Apollo production and deployments across manufacturing, logistics and other industrial workflows.
Apptronik raises $350M Series A to scale Apollo humanoid production
- B Capital and Capital Factory co-led the round, with Google participating.
- Apptronik allocated the capital to Apollo production, deployment and next-generation humanoid development.
- The company said it had raised $28 million before the Series A, providing separate cumulative context for earlier financing.
Foundation Robotics closed an $11 million round led by Tribe Capital
- The transaction was a pre-seed financing.
- Foundation develops humanoid robots for complex labour environments.
- No completed-round valuation accompanied the $11 million financing.
The Bot Company raises $150M seed financing
- The financing valued the newly formed company at $550 million post-money.
- Spark Capital and Nat Friedman were among the major backers.
- Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross and Nabeel Hyatt led a broader group of investors and entrepreneurs.
Reflex Robotics raises $7M Seed
- Reflex Robotics completed a Seed financing of $7M.
- The financing was disclosed on 2024-03-13 in USD.
- Reflex Robotics, Inc.
Figure raises $675M at $2.6B valuation and signs collaboration agreement with OpenAI
- Figure raised $675M in Series B funding at a $2.6B valuation with investments from Microsoft and other backers.
- Figure and OpenAI signed a collaboration agreement to develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots.
- The investment will accelerate Figure's timeline for commercial deployment of humanoid robots.
1X Technologies Closes $100 Million Series B
- 1X announced a $100M Series B financing round.
- The capital is intended to support scaling of NEO development and go-to-market execution.
- The round strengthens 1X's funding base for next-stage humanoid product and operations growth.
Intel Capital makes $9M Figure Series A extension
- Intel Capital made a $9 million equity investment and joined Figure's existing Series A investor group.
- Figure said the capital would support Figure 01 development, its AI data pipeline and commercialization work.
- The announcement followed Figure 01 entering testing and taking its first steps.
Figure announces $70M Series A to support commercialization of Figure 01 humanoid robot
- Figure announced a $70M Series A funding round.
- Round led by Parkway Venture Capital; participants include Brett Adcock, Aliya Capital, Bold Capital Partners, Tamarack Global, FJ Labs, and Till Reuter.
- Funding to accelerate development of Figure 01, build the AI data pipeline for autonomous operations, and drive commercialization.
1X raises $23.5M Series A2 led by OpenAI Startup Fund
- 1X announced a $23.5M Series A2 funding round.
- OpenAI Startup Fund led the round.
- The financing was positioned to accelerate humanoid robotics R&D and product development.
Apptronik secures $14.6M seed round to accelerate general-purpose robot commercialization
- Capital Factory, Grit Ventures and Perot Jain were among the named investors.
- Apptronik said proceeds would support customer orders and commercialization of a mass-produced humanoid robot.
- The company reported that customers and robots were already operating in the market when the round was announced.
Agility Robotics raises $150M Series B led by DCVC and Playground Global
- DCVC and Playground Global co-led the Series B; Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund joined as a new investor.
- Existing investors MFV Partners, ITIC, Robotics Hub, Safar Partners, Sony Innovation Fund and TDK Ventures also participated.
- Agility said the proceeds would accelerate research and development, expand US operations and scale robot production.
Agility Robotics raises $20M funding round
- Agility Robotics closed a $20 million investment round to build and deploy the Digit humanoid robot for work in human environments
- DCVC and Playground Global co-led the round, joined by TDK Ventures, MFV Partners, ITIC, Sony Innovation Fund, and Safar Partners
- Agility Robotics has raised a total of $29 million since its founding in 2015