SoftBank and Nvidia back Skild AI in $1.4B robotics investment
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Robotics startup Skild AI has secured nearly $1.4 billion in a funding round, with contributions from NVentures, Nvidia’s venture capital arm, Macquarie Capital (entities administered by Macquarie Capital), Jeff Bezos through Bezos Expeditions, Disruptive, and Trump-linked 1789 Capital, among others.
Skild AI’s valuation has climbed to over $14 billion following the latest round. The financing attracted high-profile new backers, including Samsung and Salesforce Ventures, while long-time supporters, such as Sequoia and Lightspeed, also doubled down on their investment.
Founded in 2023, the Pittsburgh-based startup is developing the “Skild Brain,” hailed as the first universal, general-purpose operating system for robots.
The model is “omni-bodied,” meaning it is capable of controlling diverse robot forms and adapting to complex, unseen environments without prior training. In other words, the Skild Brain can be plugged into any robot to grant it human-like common sense and physical intuition.
“The Skild Brain can control robots it has never trained on, adapting in real time to extreme changes in form or environments,” said Skild AI CEO Deepak Pathak. “We believe that a unified, omni-bodied brain is the fastest way to establish a continuous data flywheel where the model gets better with every single deployment.”
Skild AI has broken the data bottleneck in robotics, reportedly amassing a dataset 1,000 times larger than their competitors by using massive simulations and millions of hours of internet video.
The company grew from zero to about $30 million in revenue in just a few months in 2025. Its technology has been adopted across security, facility inspection, last-mile delivery, warehouses, manufacturing, data centers, and construction.
“Skild AI is building foundational technology for Physical AI across robots, tasks, and environments,” said Dennis Chang, Managing Partner at SoftBank Investment Advisers. “We’re proud to partner with Deepak, Abhinav, and the Skild AI team to bring that shared vision into real-world applications worldwide.”
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