# Persona AI: company

Canonical ID: `6978f03c-ee54-4a4c-83fe-7919991c737a`

## Key facts

- **Robot:** Industrial humanoid robots
- **Focus:** Shipyards, manufacturing, and defense
- **HQ:** Houston, Texas, United States
- **Founded:** 2024
- **Founder:** Nic Radford
- **Pre-seed funding:** 7M
- **Products:** Industrial humanoid robots for shipyards, manufacturing, defense

- **Slug:** persona-ai
- **Status:** active
- **HQ:** Houston, TX
- **Funding total (USD):** 27000000

## Models

- [Persona Industrial Humanoid](/models/persona-humanoid.md) (humanoid) (id: `44bede5b-34b8-4f3e-b912-f0b5bba99bca`)

## Current leadership (1)

- [Nic Radford](/people/nic-radford.md) Founder & CEO (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (1)

- [Nic Radford](/people/nic-radford.md) (cofounder)

## Partnerships (1)

- [Persona AI x HD Hyundai Shipyards](/partnerships/persona-ai-x-hd-hyundai-shipyards.md) with HD Hyundai _deployment_ (announced) (_reported, not operationally verified_)

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

_Outbound supply edges. Each appears when verified with at least two strong sources. Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history._

## Sources (1)

1. **verification source** · https://persona.ai/

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