Shankar Chandran

Physical AI footprint (8)

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

• 1X Technologiesverified→
  Portfolio company · via Samsung Next

  1X Technologies (formerly Halodi) is a Norwegian-Estonian humanoid robotics company developing NEO — a general-purpose home humanoid robot.

  Series B · $100M9 verified deployments · NEO at United States (home deployments) →5 models
• Dyna Roboticsverified→
  Portfolio company · via Samsung Next

  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
• Eka Roboticsverified→
  Portfolio company · via Samsung Next

  Eka Robotics is a Cambridge, MA-based physical AI startup building general-purpose robotic intelligence through its [Vision-Force-Action (VFA)](https://ekarobot

  Series A · $150M1 model
• 1X Technologiesverified→
  Portfolio company · via Samsung Next

  1X Technologies is a Norwegian-American robotics and AI company building NEO, a bipedal humanoid robot designed for household use.

  Series B · $100M
• DeepInfraverified→
  Portfolio company · via Samsung Next

  DeepInfra is an inference-focused GPU cloud that runs open-weight and open-source models (Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, Nemotron, Mistral, IBM Granite, and

  Series B · $107M
• Field AIverified→
  Portfolio company · via Samsung Next

  US robotics-AI startup (founder/CEO Ali Agha) building Field Foundation Models: physics-first, embodiment-agnostic autonomy for GPS-denied field/industrial robo

  Funding (2025) · $405M
• Parasailverified→
  Portfolio company · via Samsung Next

  Parasail is a US-based AI inference cloud that sells access to large language and open-weight models rather than raw GPU-hours.

  Series A · $32M
• Skild AIverified→
  Portfolio company · via Samsung Next

  American robotics-AI company (Pittsburgh, founded 2023 by former Carnegie Mellon professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta) building the 'Skild Brain', an omni

  Series C · $1.4B

and 1 more physical AI company Shankar is connected to.

Investor roles (1)

• Samsung Next general partner(strategic corporate)

Sources (1)

1. https://www.samsungnext.com/