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Robotics Startup Skild AI Lands $1.4B, Tripling Valuation To $14B In Just 7 Months

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Skild AI Inc. receives financing of $135M in Series B.

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Robotics startup Skild AI lands $1.4B, tripling valuation to $14B in just 7 months. Skild AI, a robotics company building an "omni-bodied" brain to operate any robot for any task, announced Wednesday that it has raised $1.4 billion, tripling its valuation to over $14 billion. The fundraise comes just over seven months after Skild raised a $135 million Series B at a $4.5 billion valuation. . The raise brings Pittsburgh-based Skild AI's total raised to over $1.83 billion, according to Crunchbase. The company says it grew from zero to about $30 million revenue "in just a few months" in 2025, and "is growing exponentially." It is deploying its technology in a variety of environments, including security and facility inspection, last-mile and point-to-point delivery, warehouses, manufacturing, data centers, and construction tasks, among others. Looking ahead, Skild AI plans to deploy robotics in consumers homes, with enterprise tasks as the first application. Last year was a good year for robotic startup funding. Overall, robotics startups raised $13.8 billion in funding in 2025, up from $7.8 billion in 2024 and even topping the $13.1 billion raised in the peak venture funding year of 2021. Another example of a company building a brain for robots that recently raised capital is Flexion. The Zurich-based startup, which says it's "building the brain for humanoid and...

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