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.
SoftBank Group led the startup’s latest financing, which included participation from NVentures, Nvidia’s venture capital arm, entities administered by Macquarie Capital, Bezos Expeditions, Disruptive and 1789 Capital. Several strategic investors also wrote checks into the round, including Samsung, LG Technology Ventures, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit Health, and Salesforce Ventures 1.
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 human-capable robots,” raised $50 million in funding in November.
Multipurposing intelligence
Skild AI claims to be building the industry’s “first unified robotics foundation model” 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 “can control any robot without prior knowledge of their exact body form,” 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 cleaning, loading a dishwasher and making an egg, as well as more physically demanding activities such as navigating slippery terrain.
“The 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 — much like intelligence in nature,” said Deepak Pathak, CEO and co-founder of Skild AI, in a release.
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