Founded in 2025 by brothers (24) and (20), San Francisco-based Denki aims to build 鈥渕odern鈥� infrastructure for financial audits, which verify that financial statements are accurate and controls are functioning. The startup wants to help replace manual, 鈥渆vidence-heavy鈥� processes with software automation that makes audits run more like code.

鈥淒enki helps auditors review and prepare evidence more quickly, document their work more effectively, and test process controls more rigorously,鈥� CEO Felipe told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News. 鈥淲ith higher risk coverage and reduced costs, public companies can comply better with financial regulations.鈥�

and co-led the raise, which included participation from , and others. Denki also participated in YC鈥檚 Fall 2025 cohort.

The raise comes amid a broader surge in funding to fintech startups, particularly those that apply AI in their offerings. Global funding to VC-backed financial technology startups totaled $52.9 billion in 2025, per 小蓝视频色情网页版 . That鈥檚 a 27% increase from 2024鈥檚 total of $41.6 billion raised.

Interestingly, the most-active investor in the space by far all year, in terms of deal volume, was Denki backer Y Combinator, which participated in 151 fintech startup deals last year. That鈥檚 up 24.8% compared to the 121 deals it wrote checks into in 2024.

Landing on capital and an idea

The two brothers grew up in Spain and the U.K. Upon moving to London to study computer science, the pair participated in hackathons organized by , , and VC-sponsored programs, and won several competitions.

鈥淭hat opened up opportunities, including being offered a $135,000 pre-seed check before we had an idea, which we declined,鈥� Felipe recalls.

The brothers eventually accepted a small angel check from a former staff research scientist at , which gave them a few months of runway to explore ideas before being accepted into the Y Combinator Fall 2025 batch.

鈥淲e spent time digging into compliance and landed on audit. It is a technically rich problem, with large volumes of unstructured data, high regulatory stakes and very little modernization in tooling,鈥� Felipe said. 鈥淚t also connected naturally to what we had each been doing.鈥�

David was building financial data pipelines at 鈥� a company trusted by top hedge funds 鈥� turning messy data into usable information. Felipe was working on his Ph.D. in explainable AI at , evaluating vision-language models and making black-box systems 鈥渋nterpretable.鈥�

They discovered that a common approach to addressing all the manual work required by auditors was to build Excel extensions designed to make audit work faster.

鈥淲e believe it is worth changing the status quo by moving away from Excel as the primary workspace,鈥� Felipe said.

Denki, he said, offers cleaner logs and less room for sample manipulation. Also, because the brothers have a research background, they are 鈥渃onstantly鈥� staying on top of new concerns.

鈥淥ne major audit risk today is AI fraud,鈥� said Felipe. 鈥淭here is promising research on detecting forged AI-generated receipts using invisible watermarks, and translating that research into something auditors can actually use is a big part of what we do.鈥�

Denki makes money by offering a tiered SaaS annual contract that depends on the number of controls automated, team size and other integration factors. Its customers are pre-IPO and publicly traded companies.

Building for a 鈥榟igh-stress industry鈥� under scrutiny

Denki鈥檚 founders believe their solution is timely. Last year, the imposed the third-highest cumulative penalties in its 21-year enforcement history, totaling $17.7 million, to a report. That was after issuing a record $35.7 million in penalties in 2024. The Jin Li brothers believe those metrics signal that 鈥渟crutiny is intensifying even as traditional methods strain under complexity.鈥�

For now, Denki is a two-person company, but it plans to hire engineers and auditors with its new capital.

, Base10 Partners co-founder and managing partner, told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News that his firm was impressed by the brothers鈥� 鈥減assion for the industry鈥� and their focus on automating 鈥渧ery discrete tasks鈥� for auditors.

鈥淚t was unusual to see such young people so strongly empathetic to issues in auditing but it was clear they were determined to build something great for this industry,鈥� he wrote via email.
鈥淏ut also it’s a large market that is burdened with labor supply constraints (which is not getting any better), in a high-stress industry with ever increasing scrutiny.鈥�

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led the 鈥渟trategic鈥� investment in the New York-based startup, which has now raised more than $250 million in total funding.

Eight Sleep raised $100 million last August, so this financing marks its second round in a year鈥檚 time. At the time of that raise, the company was valued at $1 billion, up from its approximately $500 million valuation at the time of its in August 2021.

Founded in 2014, Eight Sleep describes itself as a 鈥渟leep technology鈥� company that combines technology, physiology and data 鈥渢o unlock deeper sleep and better health.鈥�

The company started out selling a smart mattress, or Pod, that uses embedded sensors to collect data to study trends about how people sleep. One could say the company was ahead of its time 鈥� in 2018, it launched an AI-powered sleep coach that tells users things like: 鈥淟ast night, you slept 40 minutes less than your average this month鈥� or 鈥淭his week, your REM sleep is lower than average. Try going to bed 30 minutes earlier tonight.鈥�

The new capital will fund its expansion from sleep optimization into 鈥減redictive, AI-driven health,鈥� it said.

Executives described 2025 as a 鈥渕ilestone鈥� year in which Eight Sleep achieved free cash flow positivity and launched three new products: Pod 5, Pod Pillow Cover and Thermal Blanket.

“Sleep was just the beginning,鈥� said , co-founder and CEO of Eight Sleep, in a release. 鈥淲e’ve built the most advanced AI-powered health sensing system in the world 鈥� one that learns your body better every night and acts on that knowledge. This investment gives us the resources to take that intelligence beyond the bedroom and into every dimension of personal health. 鈥� Our goal is to build the defining health technology company of this generation.鈥�

Eight Sleep is not the only sleep-focused company to raise capital lately. Over the past few years, investors have poured hundreds of millions into an array of companies working on treatments for sleep-related ailments and technology to help improve sleep quality. , maker of the popular wearable rings that record and analyze biometric data, is the largest investment recipient in this area. It鈥檚 raised $1.25 billion in equity funding to date, including a at an $11 billion valuation in October 2025.

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announced Friday that it has closed on a staggering $110 billion fundraise at an $840 billion post-money valuation. The financing marks the largest raise ever, according to .

The money comes from three sources, with and each ponying up $30 billion. is contributing the biggest share, with a $50 billion investment. However, OpenAI says additional investors are expected to join as the round progresses.

The next-largest raise ever, per 小蓝视频色情网页版, was also raised by OpenAI in a $40 billion funding round in 2025. The third-largest was raised by rival 鈥� a $30 billion Series G haul at a $380 billion post-money valuation that was announced on Feb. 12.

The new valuation for OpenAI increases the value of the OpenAI Foundation鈥檚 stake in OpenAI group to over $180 billion, according to the company.

Subscriber growth

The company says it鈥檚 also inked a strategic partnership with Amazon and 鈥渟ecured next generation inference compute鈥� with Nvidia as part of an expansion of its partnership with the chip giant.

OpenAI claims that it now has more than 900 million weekly active users and over 50 million consumer subscribers. Subscriber momentum has picked up significantly so far in 2026, according to CEO and co-founder , with January and February on track to be the company鈥檚 largest months for new subscribers in its history.

鈥淲e are entering a new phase where frontier AI moves from research into daily use at global scale,鈥� he wrote in a blog post. 鈥淟eadership will be defined by who can scale infrastructure fast enough to meet demand, and turn that capacity into products people rely on. This funding and these partnerships let us do both.鈥�

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They鈥檙e not afraid to write big checks either. The latest evidence of this was a $450 million Series A that Livermore, California-based fusion power startup Wednesday.

led the round for the 2-year-old company, joined by , and other backers. Inertia plans to use the funds toward a fusion pilot at , which will involve building the world鈥檚 most powerful laser and a production line to mass manufacture .

The financing is the latest in a string of recent, very large deals around both fusion and nuclear fission. Per 小蓝视频色情网页版 data, both funding and deal volume for the space hit a high last year, and 2026 is off to a promising start as well.

Headline deals, leading fundraisers

It鈥檚 mostly funding announcements, but not exclusively. On the fusion front, the highest profile recently proposed deal was 鈥檚 surprising announcement in December that it plans to combine with fusion company in what TMTG called a stock transaction valued at more than $6 billion.

The deal is a long time coming for TAE, which was founded in 1998 and is the oldest operating venture-backed fusion energy company in the 小蓝视频色情网页版 dataset. The company has seen at least $1.5 billion in prior known funding to date.

Other fusion companies have also been prodigious fundraisers. The leader is , with $2.86 billion in equity funding, while other standouts include ($1 billion), ($900 million) and ($357 million).

Nuclear fission is another hot area for investment, with over $2.5 billion in funding last year, per 小蓝视频色情网页版. The largest deal was a $700 million Series D in late November for , a developer of advanced nuclear reactor and fuel technology.

Activity looks to be accelerating further this year, with more than $270 million in funding, including a $140 million round two weeks ago for Tennessee-based , which manufactures advanced nuclear fuel for new reactors.

Public markets too

Public investors also appear receptive. , which develops nuclear reactors, went public in 2024 through a merger with a SPAC launched by . It鈥檚 down quite a bit from the height scaled late last year, but still had a recent market cap around $10 billion.

Other SPAC deals have also popped up, including , which wants to develop energy parks with small modular reactors to meet data center demand, and , a developer of light-water micro-modular reactors. Meanwhile , a developer of small modular nuclear plants, completed a SPAC merger in October.

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Existing backers , , and joined new investors including and manufacturing giant participating in the extension.

The Austin-based company says that after its initial Series A announcement, it received 鈥渟ubstantial inbound investor interest,鈥� which led it to open the new extension of the round 鈥渁t a 3x multiple of the Series A valuation.鈥�

It did not reveal its new valuation. However, the reported in November that Apptronik after raising $331 million earlier that month, according to with the . The company confirmed that the $331 million raised is a part of this Series A extension round.

With the latest funding, Apptronik has now raised nearly $1 billion since its 2016 inception.

Robotics startup funding hit a record high last year, . Startups in the sector raised nearly $14 billion in funding in 2025, up from $8.2 billion in 2024, even topping the $13.1 billion raised in the peak venture funding year of 2021.

So far, that momentum appears to be continuing in 2026. Besides this raise, , a robotics company building an 鈥渙mni-bodied鈥� brain to operate any robot for any task, announced in January that it had raised $1.4 billion, tripling its valuation to more than $14 billion.

Human connections

Apptronik was founded on the belief that for humanoid robots to reach mass adoption, the industry had to solve for intuitive, safe human-robot interaction, and improve the cost and ease of manufacturing these robots.

The company claims its flagship robot, Apollo, is designed with 鈥渁pproachability at its forefront.鈥�

鈥淚ts friendly head and face, eye-level cameras, and natural color palette are engineered to make human interactions feel engaging and more natural,鈥� a spokesperson told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News.

Apollo is designed to 鈥渞evolutionize鈥� human-robot interaction, initially in industries such as logistics and manufacturing, with future planned expansion into retail, healthcare, and eventually, the home, according to the company.

It鈥檚 designed to take on physically demanding work and labor-intensive operational processes in manufacturing and logistics and to work alongside human counterparts to transport components, sort and kit, among other tasks.

Apptronik has commercial agreements with companies across several industries such as automotive manufacturing, logistics and consumer packaged goods, including Mercedes-Benz, and . It also has a strategic partnership with 鈥渢o build the next generation of humanoid robots, powered by Gemini Robotics.鈥�

The company says it will use the capital to ramp up production of Apollo and expand its global network of commercial and pilot deployments. Apptronik has worked on developing 15 robotic systems, including 鈥檚 humanoid robot Valkyrie.

Apptronik鈥檚 business is built on a Robotics as a Service model, which includes the robot hardware, software updates, service and support. The company started out of the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the and has nearly 300 employees, double its size a year ago.

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The company provides sales reps with a real-time AI assistant that 鈥済uides鈥� them during a prospect call while integrating with enterprise CRM and business intelligence systems. It also aims to eliminate administrative tasks before and after the call.

The Tel Aviv-based startup was co-founded by CEO and CTO .

The biggest difference between Winn and other startups in the space is timing, according to Postan-Koren.

鈥淢ost players in the market are passive and retrospective 鈥� they record calls to analyze after the fact why a deal was lost 鈥� a 鈥榩ost-mortem鈥� approach,鈥� he told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News. 鈥淲inn is proactive and real-time. We don’t just analyze history 鈥� we help the rep navigate the conversation while it’s happening to ensure the right questions are asked.鈥�

The focus, compared to other conversation intelligence tools, is execution vs. analytics, according to Winn鈥檚 co-founders.

鈥淐oaching is hard to apply when the feedback comes a week later,鈥� Postan-Koren said. 鈥淚nstead of telling a rep what they should have done, we guide them on what to do right now.鈥�

, and co-led the Series A raise, which included participation from , , , and . In total, the startup has raised $35 million since its 2022 inception.

Companies at the intersection of AI and sales and marketing raised close to $4 billion in venture capital last year, That represents a sizable increase over the $3.4 billion raised by such startups in 2024, though remains lower than the $6.9 billion raised in the peak venture funding year of 2021 or the $5 billion raised in 2022.

Growth and expansion

Postan-Koren declined to provide hard financial figures for Winn, saying only that it tripled its annual recurring revenue in 2025 and that it has achieved 30x growth over the past two years.

Winn has dozens of customers, including HR and payroll company , IT management platform , and data security startup . The company鈥檚 revenue model is a standard SaaS per-seat subscription.

The company is not yet profitable. It plans to use its new capital to expand its U.S. go-to-market team, while continuing to invest 鈥渉eavily鈥� in R&D. Presently, Winn has over 40 employees.

Its primary market is the U.S., although Postan-Koren said it is seeing 鈥渟trong organic traction鈥� in the United Kingdom and Europe. It is also expanding its target user, he said.

鈥淲e started with a laser focus on account executives,鈥� Postan-Koren explained. 鈥淗owever, the demand quickly pulled us into other departments.鈥�

The company now also works with sales development representatives, account managers, solutions engineers and customer success. Interestingly, he said that Winn is also starting to see demand from nonsales teams, such as support and HR.

, operating partner at Insight Partners, believes that Winn 鈥渢ransforms the process鈥� of scaling a sales team.

“It helps leaders to standardize excellence across every rep, delivering higher playbook adoption,鈥� he said in a statement. 鈥淔or a sales leader, this聽 shift can bring teams closer to delivering consistency.鈥�

, managing partner and general partner at Mangusta Capital, described Winn鈥檚 offering as an AI co-pilot that can 鈥渆mpower revenue teams in real time to sell more effectively and consistently in the future.鈥�

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All existing backers, including and , also participated in the financing. The raise comes less than one year after San Francisco-based Zocks raised a $13.8 million Series A. In total, Zocks has raised $65 million since its 2022 inception.

Prior to co-founding Zocks, CEO spent more than a decade at and more than three years as vice president of product management at . While at Twilio, Gilbert oversaw compliance and was struck by the amount of information and insights that companies were able to extract from their communications.

After leaving the company, he teamed up with to start Zocks, using artificial intelligence to glean information from discussions by organizing meeting notes.

鈥淲e were focused on very high security privacy areas, and that鈥檚 why we started with, and are 100% focused on, financial services,鈥� Gilbert told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News in an interview. 鈥淎nd what we found was the conversations advisers were having with clients had very, very valuable information for them.鈥�

The industry as a whole, he said, is understaffed and deals with 鈥渁 huge amount of manual work.鈥�

The goal of Zocks is to combine the communications and AI pieces 鈥渢o help accelerate and grow financial advisers and financial advisory firms.鈥�

The raise is yet another example of the fintech sector鈥檚 rebound. Global funding to VC-backed financial technology startups totaled $51.8 billion in 2025, per 小蓝视频色情网页版 . That鈥檚 a fairly significant increase of 27% from 2024鈥檚 total of $40.8 billion raised.

Personalized intelligence

Zocks launched its offering in February 2024. Today, its software is used by 5,000 financial firms, including , and . The startup typically charges per adviser under a SaaS model, both selling directly to advisers and through enterprise contracts. It has seen 8x year-over-year growth in revenue, according to Gilbert.

Agentic AI doesn鈥檛 just help pull information from conversations with clients, Gilbert said. It also assists them with follow-up, opening accounts, filling out forms and drafting replies to emails 鈥渨hile still having all of the compliance and privacy that financial services needs,鈥� he added.

For example, Zocks doesn鈥檛 create recordings of the conversations by default. But its agent listens to the conversations and builds tables of information. So if an adviser says, 鈥渢ell me all my clients who have children that are coming up on college age but have no 529 plan,鈥� the agent can do so. Or an adviser can ask in Zocks: 鈥渇ind me clients with old 401(k)s held outside our management.鈥�

鈥淶ocks will surface that list and suggest what to do next that鈥檚 personalized to each of those clients,鈥� Gilbert said. 鈥淭hen the adviser can take that action with one click.鈥�

Proactive AI

Gilbert believes that Zocks stands out from other offerings in that it uses agents to do a variety of proactive tasks.

鈥淭here are a lot of systems out there that are called note takers and that鈥檚 very helpful for people,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he big difference for us is that we鈥檙e able to do that as well and take this information to help the advisers get more out of it. We鈥檙e trying to anticipate their needs.鈥�

Put even more simply, the company wants to help advisers identify new financial planning opportunities across their entire client base and act faster by suggesting what to do next based on the data Zocks gets from all the systems it鈥檚 integrated with.

Currently, Zocks operates primarily in the U.S. and Canada, but has plans to expand to Europe soon.

鈥淭here鈥檚 a shortage of financial advisers and that seems to be getting worse,鈥� Gilbert said. 鈥淚 think that鈥檚 one of the reasons that we鈥檝e seen such a fast uptake.鈥�

Investor attraction

, partner at Lightspeed, told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News via email that his firm was initially attracted to Zocks鈥� founding team.

鈥淢ark and Akos are naturally customer-centric and they deeply understand how to build enterprise-grade products that are delightful to use, while scalable, secure and extensible,鈥� he said. 鈥淭heir product vision started with a hero-product, but rapidly expanded into platform capabilities that address the complex requirements of mid to larger enterprises while also scaling down to smaller companies and individual users.鈥�

, a partner at QED Investors, said her firm was impressed by Zocks鈥� ability to break into the enterprise segment early, the depth of its technology, and how 鈥渟eamlessly鈥� it fits into existing workflows.

鈥淭hey鈥檝e earned the trust of several of the largest RIAs in the country and expanded successfully into adjacent verticals like insurance,鈥� she said, 鈥渨hich is difficult to do without a product that truly works in regulated environments.鈥�

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The news was big in the fintech world with Brex claiming the pairing would represent 鈥渢he largest bank-fintech deal in history.鈥� ( had planned to buy in 2020 for $5.3 billion until that deal fell apart a year later due to regulatory concerns.)

In a joint statement, Capital One founder, chairman and CEO said it’s always been a goal of the bank 鈥渢o build a payments company at the frontier of the technology revolution.鈥�

鈥淎cquiring Brex accelerates this journey, especially in the business payments marketplace,鈥� he said. 鈥淏rex invented the integrated combination of corporate credit cards, spend management software and banking together in a single platform. They have taken the rarest of journeys for a fintech, building a vertically integrated platform from the bottom of the tech stack to the top.鈥�

While $5 billion is no small sum, it is less than half the that San Francisco-based Brex was valued at in October 2021. In total, the company has raised $1.7 billion in equity and debt since its 2017 inception 鈥� with about $1.2 billion of that being venture funding.

Early investors such as , which led Brex鈥檚 in 2017, are likely quite pleased with the outcome. Investors who wrote checks at its later stages are likely less so.

Other early backers include , and 1听.

The company has 1,100 employees, according to a Brex spokesperson who also told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News that its business is growing 40% year over year and is profitable. Customers include , , , , and , among others.

Close friends Franceschi and , who co-founded Brex, started working together when they founded another company, Brazilian payment processing startup , in 2012 at the wee age of 16. That company ended up getting acquired by Stone Pagamentos for 鈥渢ens of millions of dollars鈥� 鈥� before the two had even gone to college.

A change of plans

Brex began its life as a buzzy startup that served mostly other startups. But in June 2022 鈥� three months after announcing it would make a into software and enterprise 鈥� Brex confirmed that it was apparently it started to serve: small to medium-sized businesses.

The abrupt news didn鈥檛 sit well with many of the SMBs it served.

Over time, Brex began to seemingly fall behind its largest rival, , when it came to fundraising and revenue generation. Ramp as of last November was valued at $32 billion, having raised a total of $2.3 billion in equity.

By joining Capital One, Brex says it will accelerate Capital One鈥檚 presence in corporate cards and spend management, complementing its existing leadership in SMB banking.

Capital One鈥檚 purchase of Brex is slated to close midyear.

Fintech M&A expected to pick up

On the heels of a strong year for venture funding to fintech startups, sources who spoke with 小蓝视频色情网页版 News said they expect exits 鈥� both M&A deals and IPOs 鈥� in the sector to gain steam in 2026.

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So far, not much is known about the company, founded in September 2025, which says its mission is to design an AI tool 鈥渁round how people connect and work together, where collaboration and human insight remain central.鈥�

1听补苍诲 co-founder Harik also led the round, which included participation from , , , , , , , , 2听补苍诲 , among 鈥渕any others,鈥� according to the company. The seed round was raised all cash unstructured.

The startup says its AI lab aims to set 鈥渢he standard for how AI supports human connection.鈥� Its tool, it adds, will act as a connective tissue to facilitate collaboration between people and intelligent systems.

In a blog post, the company : 鈥淣o one changes the world alone. AI models are rapidly learning to reason better, code faster, and take actions in the world with increasing autonomy. But for humans, progress happens when we understand one another, build trust, make connections, and work together. That is where we believe the next chapter of AI should begin.鈥�

Peng told 小蓝视频色情网页版 News via email that humans& will spend the majority of the capital on compute for training models.

Huge seed rounds for AI

While huge funding rounds are not unusual in the artificial intelligence space, the Humans& raise is believed to be one of the largest seed rounds ever raised. The largest, however, was raised by last year. Launched and led by former OpenAI CTO , and joined by AI heavy hitters from Meta, OpenAI, Google and , the San Francisco-based company last year announced a -led financing at a $10 billion valuation. It was by far the largest seed round in the 小蓝视频色情网页版 dataset.

小蓝视频色情网页版 data showed that seed investors poured money into AI startups in 2025 at an even more exuberant pace than in 2024, which was already record-setting. More than 41% of the $38.4 billion invested in global seed funding in 2025 went to companies in AI-focused industry categories, per 小蓝视频色情网页版 data. That was up from 30% in 2024.

The numbers also got bigger. Just over $15 billion had gone to AI-focused seed rounds as of Dec. 12, per 小蓝视频色情网页版, up about 50% from 2024. Below, we take a look at AI investment total and share for the past six years.

It was also a record-setting year for really, really huge seed rounds. By this, we mean financings of $100 million or more 鈥� once unheard of, but now not that uncommon.

We kept the dataset of these deals to U.S. startups for simpler vetting. But even with this limit, the total was enormous 鈥� topping $3.6 billion in 2025, as of Dec. 12, a new record.

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The fundraise comes just over seven months after Skild raised at a $4.5 billion valuation.

led the startup鈥檚 latest financing, which included participation from , 鈥檚 venture capital arm, entities administered by , , and . Several strategic investors also wrote checks into the round, including , , , , and 1.

The company says it grew from zero to about $30 million revenue 鈥渋n just a few months鈥� in 2025, and 鈥渋s growing exponentially.鈥� It is deploying its technology in a variety of environments,聽 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 . The Zurich-based startup, which says it鈥檚 鈥渂uilding the brain for humanoid and human-capable robots,鈥� raised $50 million in funding in November.

Multipurposing intelligence

Skild AI claims to be building the industry鈥檚 鈥渇irst unified robotics foundation model鈥� called the Skild Brain. The company says its model differs from traditional ones that are tailored to specific robot designs in that it is omni-bodied and 鈥渃an control any robot without prior knowledge of their exact body form,鈥� including quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms and mobile manipulators.

As such, Skild AI says its technology gives robots the ability to perform simpler tasks such as household chores like , and as well as more physically demanding activities such as .

鈥淭he Skild Brain can control robots it has never trained on, adapting in real time to extreme changes in form or environments. The model is forced to adapt rather than memorize 鈥� much like intelligence in nature,鈥� said , CEO and co-founder of Skild AI, in a release.

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