Paul Drews

Physical AI footprint (8)

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

• Figure AIverified→
  Portfolio company · via Salesforce Ventures

  Sunnyvale-based humanoid-robotics company founded in 2022, among the fastest-moving US humanoid developers from prototype to production partnership.

  Series C · $1B7 verified deployments · Figure 03 at Reno, Nevada, USA →1 incident3 models
• Forterraverified→
  Portfolio company · via Salesforce Ventures

  Clarksburg-based autonomous vehicle company (formerly RRAI - [Robotic research](/companies/robotic-research) Autonomous Industries) developing the AutoDrive aut

  Series C · $238M4 verified deployments · Forterra Lancer at United States →1 model
• Dyna Roboticsverified→
  Portfolio company · via Salesforce Ventures

  Redwood City-based startup building commercial-grade dexterous automation with low-cost robots.

  Series A · $120M1 verified deployment · Sophy Swiftfold at Sacramento, California, USA →2 models
• Harkverified→
  Portfolio company · via Salesforce Ventures

  Hark is a San Jose-based AI lab founded by [Figure AI](/companies/figure-ai) CEO Brett Adcock, building personalized AI systems and native hardware devices.

  Series A · $700M2 models
• Black Forest Labsverified→
  Portfolio company · via Salesforce Ventures

  Black Forest Labs (BFL) is a Freiburg / San Francisco generative AI lab known for FLUX image and video models, tracked here for its Physical AI / robotics path
• Cohereverified→
  Portfolio company · via Salesforce Ventures

  Enterprise AI company building language models optimized for retrieval and tool use, relevant to robot instruction parsing and task planning.

  Aug 2025 round · $500M
• Crusoe Energyverified→
  Portfolio company · via Salesforce Ventures

  Crusoe started in 2018 as a flare-gas-to-bitcoin outfit in the Bakken and pivoted, at speed, into one of the most consequential builders of AI training capacity

  Series F · $3.9B
• ElevenLabsverified→
  Portfolio company · via Salesforce Ventures

  AI voice synthesis company building ultra-realistic text-to-speech enabling natural verbal communication for humanoid robots and Embodied AI systems.

  Series C · $180M

and 7 more physical AI companies Paul is connected to.

Investor roles (1)

• Salesforce Ventures general partner(strategic corporate)

Sources (1)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce