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Nimble Robotics

AI-powered order fulfillment robotics; soft gripper robots integrated with AMR platforms for each-pick warehouse operations.

Founded
2019
HQ
San Jose, CA
Status
private

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Nimble Robotics: 1 model, 1 deployment across 1 region, $221.0M raised. 1 source back the record.

CategoryWarehouse & Logistics Robotics

Appears inLogistics robots

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Regional ecosystem

Nimble Robotics is one of 433 verified robotics companies in California

Valuation of record

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$1Bas of Jan 2024

Priced roundSeries C post-money

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Key facts

Product

General-purpose AI-powered warehouse robots for storage, retrieval, picking, packing, sorting

Founder

Simon Kalouche (CEO) — Stanford AI Lab PhD (advised by Fei-Fei Li); MS Robotics CMU; BS MechE Ohio State; ex-NASA JPL; Forbes 30 Under 30

Founded

2016-2018, San Francisco, California

Patents

5 USPTO granted patents (robotic fulfillment system, drop guard, storage picking, end effector, continuation)

Fundingsee investors

Series A $50M (2021, DNS Capital/GSR Ventures/Accel); Series B $65M (2023, Cedar Pine); Series C $106M (2024, FedEx/Cedar Pine, $1B valuation); total ~$221M

Board

Fei-Fei Li, Sebastian Thrun, Marc Raibert (Boston Dynamics)

Customers

PUMA, Best Buy, Victoria Secret, Adore Me, iHerb, Fresh Clean Threads, FedEx Fulfillment

Strategic

FedEx strategic investor + commercial partner (2024)

Data & sources

Web sources

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Partnerships

Every company Nimble Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

2 total1 operating1 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1FedEx1× joint
  2. 2Reliable Robotics1× joint1 total

Most recent

  1. Nimble x FedEx2024-10-01
    with FedExoperating

Nimble Robotics on the deployment map

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Relationships

Current leadership (1)

Founders (1)

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Nimble Robotics.

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Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Nimble Robotics in third-party press

Peers

160 peers across 2 segments. Every Nimble Robotics competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

amr(85)

53 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2073.1177093090264) · leader Boston Dynamics at 4191%

industrial robot(75)

33 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2051.61304640928) · leader Mind Robotics at 3415%