Eka Robotics secures $150M Series A led by a16z at reported $1.45B valuation
Eka Robotics has raised $150 million in a Series A round led by a16z and F-Prime Capital, reaching a reported $1.45 billion valuation to advance dexterous robotic hands powered by physical AI.
Eka Robotics raised a $150 million Series A funding round at a post-money valuation of $1.45 billion, according to TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE. Venture firm a16z announced it led the round alongside F-Prime Capital, with continued support from seed lead investors Obvious Ventures and E14 Fund. A report by Crypto Briefing also noted the $150 million raise, citing a $1.45 billion valuation in its headline while stating a $1 billion valuation in its text.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The startup is building physical AI systems designed to solve dexterous manipulation, creating physics-trained robotic arms and hands capable of sensing force and handling fragile items. Eka Robotics developed a 'vision-force-action' model that merges visual perception with direct force feedback, designing hardware, sensing, and models together so robots can treat physical contact as informational input.[1][2][3][5][6]
Eka Robotics was co-founded by Pulkit Agrawal, a robot learning researcher leading the Improbable AI Lab at MIT CSAIL, and Tuomas Haarnoja, who co-developed core reinforcement learning algorithms at UC Berkeley before training humanoid behaviors at Google DeepMind.[3]
Key facts
- Eka Robotics raised $150 million in Series A funding.
- TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE reported the financing at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, while Crypto Briefing reported a $1 billion valuation in its text alongside $1.45 billion in its headline.
- a16z and F-Prime Capital led the Series A round, joined by seed investors Obvious Ventures and E14 Fund.
- The startup is developing a Vision-Force-Action architecture that combines visual inputs with force feedback so robots can handle fragile objects and use physical contact as data.
- Eka Robotics was co-founded by Pulkit Agrawal of MIT CSAIL and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja.
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Techmeme@TechmemePost on X ·
Eka Robotics, which is developing a "vision-force-action" architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation (@timfernholz / TechCrunch) (Visit Techmeme dot com for the link and full context!)
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Eka Robotics reportedly hits $1.45B valuation with $150M Series A Eka Robotics reportedly raised a $150M Series A at a $1B valuation for its physics-trained robotic arm that handles fragile objects. The post Eka Robotics reportedly hits $1.45B valuation with $150M Series A appeared first on Crypto Briefing .
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a16z@a16zPost on X ·
We believe solving dexterous manipulation is one of the largest opportunities in robotics. That’s why we're thrilled to lead Eka Robotics’ Series A. Much of the world's physical economy still depends on people using their hands, and that work has been hard to automate because the real world is variable. @EkaRobotics has built a Vision-Force-Action model that combines visual perception with force feedback from its robotic hands. The model, sensing, and hardware are designed together, so the robot can use physical contact itself as information. If Eka’s approach works at scale, the implication is profound: robot experience can increasingly scale with compute rather than human labor. Pulkit Agrawal is one of the leading researchers in robot learning and a pioneer in computational sensorimotor learning through work at his Improbable AI Lab at MIT CSAIL. Tuomas Haarnoja co-created a foundational algorithms in modern reinforcement learning at Berkeley and later worked at Google DeepMind training complex humanoid behaviors. Congrats, @pulkitology, @haarnoja, and the Eka Robotics team! By @stuffyokodraws and @RaghuRaghuram
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📌 @EkaRobotics has raised a $150 million Series A. https://t.co/1Pk8YovMBn @a16z and @FPrimeCapital led the round, with continued backing from seed lead investors @obviousvc and @e14fund. #ai #ustech #valuation #robotics #innovation #investment #vcfunding #funding #startups #technology
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Eka Robotics, which is developing a "vision-force-action" architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch : Eka Robotics, which is developing a “vision-force-action” architecture for its physical AI models, raised a $150M Series A at a $1.45B post-money valuation — Robots still aren't that good at picking things up, despite billions of dollars of investment and endless videos fed into deep learning models.
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Eka Robotics nets $150M at a $1.45B valuation for robot hands that sense force https://t.co/6klrItyFzu
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