Proception

Current leadership (2)

• Jay Li Co-Founder & CEOreported, not verified
• Jack Xu Co-Founderreported, not verified

Founders (2)

• Jay Licofounder
• Jack Xucofounder

Safety record

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Incidents affecting Proception (1)

• Tesla sued Proception founder Jay Li alleging theft of Optimus robot trade secrets2025-06-12 · Regulatory action

Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Peer companies

• DJI7 models
• Boston Dynamics5 models
• ATI Industrial Automation2 models
• Embodied2 models
• EverestLabs2 models
• Forth Engineering2 models

Financial state

Reporting basis

private_reported

Lifecycle stage

early

Counterparty risk class

low

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Funding rounds (1)

• Seed2026-06-29

  $11M(reported)

  Investors: First Round Capital, Y Combinator, BoxGroup

Sources (2)

1. https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/robot-hand-company-settles-tesla-trade-secret-suit-and-announces-11m-raise/ ↗
2. https://www.proception.ai/news/introducing-prohand ↗

Common questions

What is Proception?

Silicon Valley startup developing dexterous robotic hands for humanoid manipulation. Founded in 2024 by ex-Tesla Optimus engineer Jay Li and Jack Xu, the company's flagship product ProHand 1.0 is a 22-degree-of-freedom, tendon-driven robotic hand designed to give humanoid robots human-level manipulation capabilities. Proception is a Y Combinator W25 alum and also offers ProGlove 1.0, a wearable data-capture glove for training manipulation policies from human demonstrations.

Where is Proception based?

Proception is based in Palo Alto, CA.

When was Proception founded?

Proception was founded in 2024.

What does Proception make?

Proception has 2 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: ProHand 1.0, ProHand 1.0 (Proception builds physical robots).

Where does Proception operate robots?

Proception is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

Are there any incidents involving Proception?

1 active incident involving Proception is on the DEPLOY registry. Each is a sourced, append-only record; retracted incidents are suppressed from this view.

Is Proception safe?

Proception has 1 active incident on record in the DEPLOY registry. 1 incident on record (1 moderate). Most recent: Jun 2025. Retracted incidents are excluded from this count.