The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Skild AI: $1.8B raised. 10 sources back the record.
Funding
$1.8B
Employees
50
Overview
American robotics-AI company (Pittsburgh, founded 2023 by former Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta) building the 'Skild Brain', an omni-bodied foundation model designed to control any robot (quadruped, humanoid, arm, mobile manipulator) without per-body retraining, trained on human video and physics simulation. Raised a ~$1.4B round (Jan 2026, led by SoftBank, with NVIDIA's NVentures, Bezos expeditions, and others) at a ~$14B+ valuation; total funding reported >$2B. Builds the robot brain, not hardware.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries C post-money
Key facts
What it is
Model
Early revenue/deployment
Backerssee investors →
Product
Deployments
Financial stage
Fetch Robotics acquisition
Warehouse strategy
Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
4
Web sources
4
10 sources backing this record.View all →
Partnerships
Every company Skild AI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon1× joint15 total
- 2Bezos Expeditions1× joint2 total
- 3Carnegie Mellon University1× joint1 total
- 4Coatue1× joint1 total
- 5Lightspeed Venture Partners1× joint1 total
- 6Sequoia Capital1× joint1 total
Most recent
- with Zebra Technologiesoperating
- Skild AI Series A (2024)2024-07-09with Amazonoperating
Relationships
Claims ledger
Public, dated claims by Skild AI, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.
- OpenCapacity · claimed 2026-04-15
“Skild AI acquired Zebra Technologies' robotics arm (formerly Fetch Robotics). Major step toward fully autonomous warehouses. More robots. More environments. One unified brain.”
Disagree with a status? Skild AI can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.
Explainers
Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Skild AI, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.
What is a foundation model for robotics?
What is Skild AI and the Skild Brain foundation model?
Which companies build foundation models for robotics, and how do they compare?
What's the difference between robotics brain providers and robot makers?
Current leadership (2)
- Deepak Pathak Co-founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Abhinav Gupta Co-founder, Co-founder & Presidentsecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Deepak Pathakcofounderfounded 2023-01-01
- Abhinav Guptacofounderfounded 2023-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Skild AI.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Brains developed (1)
- Skild Brainfoundation-model · commercial
Recent coverage
Skild AI in third-party press
Sector Snapshot: Robotics Startups On Fire As Venture Funding Surges To Record Numbers In 2026
Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies' robotics arm (formerly Fetch Robotics)
NVIDIA Announces Open Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint to Accelerate Robotics, Vision AI Agents and Autonomous Vehicle Development
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Skild AI competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- Field AIdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Generalist AIdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Physical Intelligencedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Rhoda AIdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $1.8B
- Employees
- 50
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
3 total · 2 operating · 1 just announced · 1 ended
Every company Skild AI has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- with Zebra Technologiesoperating
- Skild AI Series A (2024)2024-07-09with Amazonoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Amazon1× joint15 total
- 2Bezos Expeditions1× joint2 total
- 3Carnegie Mellon University1× joint1 total
- 4Coatue1× joint1 total
- 5Lightspeed Venture Partners1× joint1 total
- 6Sequoia Capital1× joint1 total
All 3 partnerships
open in the atlas →- technology—just announced
- investment2024-07-09operating
- technology2026-06-15concludedoperating
Funding rounds (3)
Skild AI’s 3 disclosed rounds, $2.2B in total, oldest to newest.
- Series C2026-01-14
$1.4B · $14.0B post
Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund (lead), NVentures (NVIDIA) (strategic), Macquarie Capital, Jeff Bezos / Bezos Expeditions, Samsung Next (strategic), Salesforce Ventures (strategic)
- Series B2025-06-01
$500M(reported) · $4.5B post
Investors: SoftBank Vision Fund (lead), NVentures (NVIDIA), Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures
- Series A2024-07-09
$300M · $1.5B post
Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners (lead), Coatue Management (lead), SoftBank Vision Fund (lead), Jeff Bezos / Bezos Expeditions (lead), Felicis Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, CRV, Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund
Acquisitions (2)
- acquired Zebra Technologiesasset purchase2026-04-15
- acquired Fetch Roboticsasset purchase2026-01-01
Timeline
Every recorded move in Skild AI’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Started supplyingBecame supplier to Google DeepMind
2026-08-22Supply: component to Google DeepMind
PartnershipSkild AI x Zebra Technologies Robotics Acquisition
2026-06-15Skild AI acquired Zebra Technologies robotics arm to bring omni-bodied robotics capabilities to its platform, combining Skilds generalized robot brain with Zebras industrial robotics assets.
AcquisitionAcquisition announced
2026-04-15Acquisition
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2026-01-14Series C raising $1400000000
AcquisitionAcquired Zebra Technologies Robotics Division (formerly Fetch Robotics)
2026-01-01Acquired Zebra Technologies Robotics Division (formerly Fetch Robotics) (asset_purchase)
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2025-06-01Series B raising $500000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2024-07-09Series A raising $300000000
PartnershipSkild AI Series A (2024)
2024-07-09Skild AI raised a $300 million Series A (announced July 9, 2024) at about a $1.5B valuation to build a scalable AI foundation model for robotics; led by Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank Group and Jeff Bezos, with participation from Amazon, Sequoia, Menlo Ventures, General Catalyst, and Carnegie Mellon University.
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdMay 25, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (10)
- TFN: Skild AI raises $1.4B for universal robot brain · https://techfundingnews.com/robotics-unicorn-skild-ai-grabs-1-4b-to-build-a-universal-brain-for-every-robot/ · 2026-01-15
- https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260114335623/en/Skild-AI-Raises-1.4B-Now-Valued-Over-14B
- https://www.skild.ai/blogs/series-c
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-14/robotics-startup-skild-valued-above-14-billion-after-softbank-led-funding-round
- https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/robotic-software-maker-skild-ai-hits-14b-valuation/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/skild-ai-raises-1-4b-building-omni-bodied-robot-skild-brain/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/skild-ai-is-giving-robots-a-brain/
- https://www.pymnts.com/artificial-intelligence-2/2025/softbank-and-nvidia-consider-joining-funding-round-for-robotics-firm-skild-ai/
- https://aibusiness.com/robotics/skild-ai-startup-builds-robot-brain
- https://technical.ly/entrepreneurship/skild-ai-1-4-billion-raise/
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 10 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 2
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 1
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Skild AI.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Skild AI from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Sector Snapshot: Robotics Startups On Fire As Venture Funding Surges To Record Numbers In 2026
Robotics startups raised 8.8B globally in H1 2026, surpassing 2025's full-year total of 5B, driven by embodied AI and humanoid robotics deals including Saronic, NEURA Robotics,…
Skild AI acquires Zebra Technologies' robotics arm (formerly Fetch Robotics)
Skild AI acquired Fetch Robotics (Zebra's robotics arm). 'Orchestration meets intelligence — unified brain for autonomous warehouses.' 77K views.
NVIDIA Announces Open Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint to Accelerate Robotics, Vision AI Agents and Autonomous Vehicle Development
NVIDIA announced an open Physical AI Data Factory Blueprint at GTC 2026, enabling massive-scale data processing, synthetic data generation, and reinforcement learning for…
Humanoid robotics at scale: Hexagon Robotics joins NVIDIA GTC 2026 panel
At NVIDIA GTC 2026, Amit Goel, Head of Robotics and Edge Computing Ecosystem at NVIDIA, brought together leaders from Agility Robotics, Tesla, Physical Intelligence, Hexagon…
Skild AI Raises .4B, Now Valued Over 4B
Skild AI raised .4 billion in Series C funding led by SoftBank Group, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Macquarie Capital, and Jeff Bezos, tripling its valuation to over 4…
Robotics software maker Skild AI hits 4B valuation
Skild AI raised .4B Series C led by SoftBank with Nvidia, valuing the Pittsburgh robotics foundation model startup at over 4B; total raised exceeds B.
Skild AI — Funding and Valuation
Skild AI has raised over $2 billion in funding at a $14 billion+ valuation, making it one of the most valuable robotics AI companies. Building general-purpose foundation model…
Skild tests robot brain in Nvidia, Foxconn factory deal
Skild AI is testing its general-purpose robotic intelligence foundation model in Nvidia and Foxconn factories. The AI runs on humanoid, quadruped, and industrial arm robots.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/skild-ai.md
- RSS feed: /companies/skild-ai/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/f2bc0384-8344-4e6f-9b04-4bf9ddf37004
- Revision history: /companies/skild-ai/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Skild AI against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Well-capitalized with $2.2B raised and recent funding activity. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Aug 24, 2026