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Fleet reaching hundreds of robots by H1 2027 across hotels, logistics, data centers, and restaurants. 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Founded by repeat entrepreneurs [Lindon Gao](/people/lindon-gao) and [York Yang](/people/york-yang) (who previously sold [Caper AI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caper_AI) to [Instacart](https://www.instacart.com) for $350M) alongside former Google [DeepMind](https://deepmind.com) research scientist [Jason Ma](/people/jason-ma). Raised $144M total ($120M Series A in September 2025 led by [Robostrategy](/companies/robostrategy) and [CRV](/companies/crv)). On August 10, 2026, Dyna unveiled [DYNA-2](/brains/dyna-2), a World-Action Model pre-trained on over 1 million hours of human egocentric video, demonstrating the first human-to-robot scaling law for robotics. 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