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Gal Niv

Co-founder of Enigma, an AI robotics research lab emerging from stealth in July 2026 with a $71M seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Israeli Unit 8200 veteran who met co-founder Jonathan Jacobi in hacking competitions as a teen; the two became close friends during their cybersecurity service together. Enigma is building intuitive human-robot interaction interfaces, running a large-scale online experiment with 100+ proprietary robotic arms.

Israeli · 1 current role · 1 founding


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  • Enigmaverified
    Founder

    Enigma is a physical AI research lab based in Tel Aviv building [Foundation](/companies/foundation) models (GEN-1) and proprietary robotic arms for human-robot

    Seed · $71M2 models

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  • Enigma Co-founderSecondary-verified

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Sources (2)

  1. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/enigma-raises-70m-to-make-controlling-a-robot-as-easy-as-adjusting-the-volume/
  2. https://thenextweb.com/news/enigma-70m-seed-robot-interaction-experiment

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