# Proception: company

Canonical ID: `fbcf0031-defc-4535-baf6-30fbc8170602`

## Key facts

- **Funding:** $11M seed (2026)
- **Lead investor:** First Round Capital
- **Other investors:** Y Combinator, BoxGroup
- **Founder:** Jay Li (ex-Tesla Optimus tech lead)
- **CEO:** Jay Li
- **Co-founder:** Jack Xu
- **Seed funding:** 1M (2026, led by First Round Capital)
- **YC batch:** W25
- **Product:** ProHand 1.0 (22 DoF robotic hand)

- **Slug:** proception
- **Founded:** 2024
- **HQ:** Palo Alto, CA
- **Funding total (USD):** 11000000

## Models

- [ProHand 1.0](/models/prohand-1.md) (other) (id: `bc1cb1e3-ba13-4bd9-bbe1-86201209dc84`)
- [ProHand 1.0](/models/proception-prohand.md) (other) (id: `f5eb7a13-731d-47bc-9228-afc2073a832d`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Jay Li](/people/jay-li.md) Co-Founder & CEO (_reported, not verified_)
- [Jack Xu](/people/jack-xu.md) Co-Founder (_reported, not verified_)

## Founders (2)

- [Jay Li](/people/jay-li.md) (cofounder)
- [Jack Xu](/people/jack-xu.md) (cofounder)

## 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._

## Incidents affecting Proception (1)

- [Tesla sued Proception founder Jay Li alleging theft of Optimus robot trade secrets](/incidents/regulatory-action-2025-06-12-proception.md), 2025-06-12 · Regulatory action

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

## 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

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