Skild AI hits $100M+ ARR and $14B valuation with $1.4B SoftBank-led round
xmercury_one · x · 2026-10-21
Skild AI, the Pittsburgh company building a general-purpose 'brain' for robots, has become one of the most valuable private robotics companies:
- Raised a $1.4B Series C in January 2026 led by SoftBank at a $14B+ valuation, with NVIDIA's NVentures, Macquarie Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Lightspeed, Felicis, Coatue and Sequoia participating.
- Reports over $100M in annual recurring revenue and partnerships with ABB Robotics, Universal Robots and Mobile Industrial Robots to embed its foundation models into industrial robots.
- Working with NVIDIA and Foxconn on high-precision assembly of Blackwell systems; demos show dual-arm robots positioning parts and driving screws. Its models can learn new tasks from a single video.
- Founded in 2023 by CMU researchers Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta.
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