Robot brains

• Deepak Pathak: CEO and co-founder; release calls both founders "two pioneers in the field of self-supervised and adaptive robotics" (Skild AI press release (Business Wire), Jan 14, 2026)
• Abhinav Gupta: co-founder and president (Skild AI press release (Business Wire), Jan 14, 2026)

• Jul 2024, Series A: $300M, valued at $1.5B (Skild AI press release (Business Wire), referencing its earlier release, Jan 14, 2026)
• Jan 14, 2026, Series C: about $1.4 billion, valued at more than $14 billion. Investors named: SoftBank Group (lead), Nvidia / NVentures, Macquarie, 1789 Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Lightspeed, Felicis, Sequoia, Coatue, Samsung, LG, Salesforce Ventures (Bloomberg, Jan 14, 2026)

Revenue figures are company-reported and unaudited. Pathak told Bloomberg about the round himself.

• Lachy Groom: former early Stripe employee and angel investor (TechCrunch, Jan 30, 2026)
• Sergey Levine: associate professor at UC Berkeley (TechCrunch, Jan 30, 2026)
• Quan Vuong: came from Google DeepMind (TechCrunch, Jan 30, 2026)

• Nov 2025, Series B: $600 million, valued at about $5.6 billion (per Bloomberg). Investors named: CapitalG (lead), Lux Capital, Bond, Redpoint, Sequoia Capital, Jeff Bezos, OpenAI, T. Rowe Price, Thrive Capital (The Robot Report, Nov 25, 2025)
• Mar 27, 2026, in talks (not confirmed closed): about $1 billion, valued at above $11 billion. Investors named: Founders Fund (set to participate) (Bloomberg, Mar 27, 2026)

The $11 billion figure is from Bloomberg citing people familiar with the matter; we found no confirmation that the round closed. TechCrunch (Jan 2026) says the company had raised "over $1 billion" and described it as focused on research, with testing at a small number of partners.

• Zhou Xian: CEO; PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University (TechCrunch, Jul 1, 2025)
• Théophile Gervet: president; former research scientist at Mistral AI (TechCrunch, Jul 1, 2025)

• Jul 1, 2025, seed: $105 million. Investors named: Eclipse (co-lead), Khosla Ventures (co-lead), Bpifrance, HSG, Eric Schmidt, Xavier Niel, Daniela Rus, Vladlen Koltun (TechCrunch, Jul 1, 2025)
• Jul 23, 2026, in talks (not confirmed): about $500M, valued at about $3B pre-money. Investors named: Premji Invest (reportedly in talks to lead), HSG, Northzone (The Next Web, Jul 24, 2026)

Talks figures are from people familiar, per Bloomberg as relayed by TNW; the Bloomberg original was not fetched. Genesis has moved into hardware (robotic hands, wheeled robot), so it overlaps with roboticsverdict.com. TechCrunch (2025) calls its physics engine "proprietary".

• Wang He: "GALBOT founder" (no background given in fetched source) (Gasgoo, Mar 3, 2026)

• Dec 23, 2025, not named: over $300 million (total funding $800 million), valued at $3 billion. Investors named: investors from China, Singapore and the Middle East (not named) (The Robot Report, Dec 23, 2025)
• Mar 3, 2026, not named: 2.5 billion yuan, valued at above 20 billion yuan (after the previous round). Investors named: National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund (via China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund), Sinopec, SAIC Financial Holding, CITIC Investment Holdings, BOC Asset Investment, E-town Capital (Gasgoo, Mar 3, 2026)

Galbot is a robot maker as well as a model developer (overlaps roboticsverdict.com). The IPO filing is from an unnamed source and not confirmed. Gasgoo is a Chinese auto-industry trade outlet, not on our trusted list; amounts are as it reports them. Deployment and order claims are as reported.

• Wang Qian: founder and CEO (background not given in fetched sources) (X Square Robot press release (PR Newswire via AAP), Jun 29, 2026)

• Jan 13, 2026, not named (A++ in some reports): 1 billion yuan ($143 million). Investors named: ByteDance (lead), HongShan Capital Group (lead), Shenzhen Capital Group (Caixin Global, Jan 13, 2026)
• Jun 29, 2026, Series C (end of four consecutive rounds): not stated, valued at over US$2.8 billion (RMB 20 billion). Investors named: IDG, HongShan, Xiaomi, Meituan, Alibaba, ByteDance (X Square Robot press release (PR Newswire via AAP), Jun 29, 2026)

The valuation is company-reported. X Square builds humanoid robots as well as models (overlaps roboticsverdict.com). Caixin calls it Shenzhen-based; its AI digest says Beijing; we use Shenzhen, which the press release dateline also uses.

• Ali Agha: founder and CEO; seven years at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, postdoc at MIT, started Qualcomm's robotic autonomy efforts in 2016 (Orange County Business Journal, Aug 2025)

• Aug 20, 2025, latest two rounds combined (latest: $314 million): $405 million, valued at about $2 billion (per Axios and CNBC, as cited by GeekWire). Investors named: Gates Frontier, Bezos Expeditions, NVentures, BHP Ventures, Canaan Partners, Emerson Collective, Intel Capital, Khosla Ventures, Prysm, Temasek (GeekWire, Aug 20, 2025)
• Oct 2, 2026, reported, not confirmed: $700 million, valued at $10 billion (Orange County Business Journal, Oct 2, 2026)

The $10 billion figure is from Business Insider, relayed by OCBJ; OCBJ said it had asked FieldAI to confirm. We did not fetch the Business Insider article. The OCBJ page date is shown as August 2025 (the round was announced 2025-08-20). We found no dated model release pages.

• Pete Florence: co-founder and CEO (background not given in fetched sources) (Robotics 24/7, Jun 5, 2026)
• Andy Zeng: co-founder and chief scientist (Robotics 24/7, Jun 5, 2026)
• Andrew Barry: co-founder and CTO (Robotics 24/7, Jun 5, 2026)

• Jun 4, 2026, not named: $400 million, valued at $2 billion, including the money raised. Investors named: Radical Ventures (lead), 8VC, Union Square Ventures, Norwest, Hanabi Capital, Nvidia, Bezos Expeditions, Eric Yuan, Lin Bin, Fei-Fei Li (Bloomberg, Jun 4, 2026)

Reliability figures are company-reported. Robotics 24/7 says total raised is more than half a billion dollars.

• Lindon Gao: co-founder and CEO; co-built Caper AI, which "exited in 2021 for $350 million" (Dyna press release (PR Newswire), Sep 15, 2025)
• York Yang: co-founder; co-built Caper AI (Dyna press release (PR Newswire), Sep 15, 2025)
• Jason Ma: co-founder; former DeepMind research scientist (Dyna press release (PR Newswire), Sep 15, 2025)

• Sep 15, 2025, Series A: $120 million, valued at more than $600 million. Investors named: CRV (lead), First Round Capital (lead), RoboStrategy (lead), Nvidia, Amazon, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures (Bloomberg, Sep 15, 2025)

Smaller valuation than most here; included as a robot-model company that reports paid deployments. Performance claims (e.g. "99+% success rate") are company-reported. Dyna also builds its own robots.