DEPLOYDatabase

Person

Ali Agha

Founder and CEO of FieldAI (2023). Spent nearly a decade leading the Autonomous and Robotics systems division at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, including building robots for extreme environments. Founded FieldAI to develop physics-first foundation models enabling any robot to operate in complex, unstructured environments. Company reached $2B valuation in 2025.

American · 3 current roles · 1 founding

Track Ali Agha

Physical AI footprint (2)

The physical AI companies Ali is connected to that DEPLOY verifies. The full record is one click away.

  • FieldAIverified→
    CEO & Co-founder

    FieldAI develops Field Foundation Models (FFMs), a class of physics-first foundation models for embodied intelligence that enable robots to navigate unstructure

    1 model
  • Field AIverified→
    Founder

    US robotics-AI startup (founder/CEO Ali Agha) building Field [Foundation](/companies/foundation) Models: physics-first, embodiment-agnostic autonomy for GPS-den

    Funding (2025) · $405M

Current roles (3)

  • FieldAI CEO & Co-founderSecondary-verified
  • FieldAI Co-founderSecondary-verified
  • Field AI Founder and CEOsince 2023-01-01Secondary-verified

Foundings (1)

See all founders in the registry.

Sources (2)

  1. https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/fieldai-announces-over-400m-in-funds-raised-to-advance-embodied-ai-at-scale-302534675.html
  2. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/gates-nvidia-fieldai-robotics.html

Mentioned on (5)

Registry pages whose text names Ali Agha.

Companies (2)

Field AI, FieldAI

Deploy Watch

Track Ali Agha on Deploy.

We notify you when a verified role changes, a founded-company event lands, or litigation surfaces.