Skild AI Raises $1.4 Billion as Investors Chase General-Purpose Robotics
Backed by SoftBank, Nvidia’s NVentures and Bezos Expeditions, the startup is betting on software that works across robots and environments.
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Skild AI Inc., a Pittsburgh-based robotics software startup, has raised about $1.4 billion in a Series C funding round that values the company at more than $14 billion.
The round was led by SoftBank Group, with participation from Nvidia venture arm NVentures, Macquarie Capital, and Jeff Bezos through his private investment firm Bezos Expeditions, the company said.
Strategic investors including Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit and Salesforce Ventures also joined the financing.
Existing backers such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, Felicis Ventures, Coatue Management, and Sequoia Capital participated as well.
The latest round brings Skild AI’s total capital raised to more than $1.8 billion, according to Crunchbase.
Founded in 2023, Skild AI is developing what it describes as a general-purpose robotic “brain” designed to operate across different robot types and environments, rather than being limited to a single task or machine.
“There is no Internet of Robots,” co-founder and chief executive Deepak Pathak said in an interview with Bloomberg. “You cannot produce a brain for robots without having data. From the beginning, our focus has been to build one brain for any robot, any task, any scenario.”
The company said it recorded roughly $30 million in revenue within a few months in 2025 and is working with multiple enterprise customers, though it has not disclosed client names. Current deployments include use cases in security and facility inspection, logistics, warehouses, manufacturing, data centers and construction. Enterprise applications are expected to remain the initial focus, with consumer use cases planned for a later stage.
The company said the new funding will be used to expand deployments, improve training systems and support further development of its robotics software across additional environments.
