Robotics startup Watney raises $80M Series A, total funding tops $100M
mattfreed · x · 2026-09-17
Robotics startup Watney announced an $80M Series A co-led by Valor Atreides AI Fund and Hummingbird Ventures, with participation from Conviction, Abstract, A, and Grant Gordon, bringing total funding to over $100M. The company targets robots for foundational industries: energy, matter, and intelligence, betting that one robot's capability breakthrough scales to millions.
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