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Jonathan Jacobi

Co-founder of Enigma, an AI robotics research lab that raised a $71M seed round in July 2026 led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital. Microsoft's youngest-ever employee, recruited by Wiz founder Assaf Rappaport. Israeli Unit 8200 veteran who met co-founder Gal Niv in hacking competitions as a teen. Enigma studies human-robot interaction to discover intuitive interfaces — what Jacobi calls "the volume knob" of robotics.

Israeli · 1 current role · 1 founding

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    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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  1. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/enigma-raises-70m-to-make-controlling-a-robot-as-easy-as-adjusting-the-volume/
  2. https://hyper.ai/en/stories/82e3b731569ecf2e909402542fa338ec

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