# Nimble Robotics: company

Canonical ID: `81ccd674-c1d8-4026-afc3-ac15a9ee1164`

## 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)
- **Funding:** 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)

- **Slug:** nimble-robotics
- **Founded:** 2019
- **HQ:** San Jose, CA

## Models

- [Nimble Fulfillment Robot](/models/nimble-fulfillment-robot.md) (amr) (id: `485d1b21-9ece-432b-bf88-acf83b9f78c7`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Simon Kalouche](/people/simon-kalouche.md) Founder & CEO (secondary-verified)

## Founders (1)

- [Simon Kalouche](/people/simon-kalouche.md) (sole)

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