Company
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
- Models
- 1
- Deployments
- 1
Verified profile
0
Sources on record
1
Tracked changes
Updated 27 days ago
Last verified change
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)
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Models (1)
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Current leadership (1)
- Simon Kalouche Founder & CEOsince 2019-01-01secondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Simon Kalouchesolefounded 2019-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Nimble Robotics.
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Operated deployments (1)
- Nimble Fulfillment RobotNew Jersey
Operator customers (1)
- Nimble Robotics1 deployment
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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Funding rounds (3)
- Series C2024-01-01
$106M · $1.0B post
Investors: FedEx (lead), Cedar Pine (co_lead)
- Series B2022-05-01
$100M(reported)
Investors: Accel (lead)
- Series A2021-08-01
$50M(reported)
Investors: Accel (lead)
Common questions
- What is Nimble Robotics?
- AI-powered order fulfillment robotics; soft gripper robots integrated with AMR platforms for each-pick warehouse operations.
- Where is Nimble Robotics based?
- Nimble Robotics is based in San Jose, CA.
- When was Nimble Robotics founded?
- Nimble Robotics was founded in 2019.
- What does Nimble Robotics make?
- Nimble Robotics has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: Nimble Fulfillment Robot (Nimble Robotics builds physical robots).
- Where does Nimble Robotics operate robots?
- Nimble Robotics operates 1 verified deployment, including at New Jersey.
- Is Nimble Robotics safe?
- Nimble Robotics has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
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Verification posture
Claimed (not independently verified)
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-24
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- Revision history: /companies/nimble-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
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DEPLOY Intelligence Score
34.4/ 100
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
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Last computed: Jul 3, 2026
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