Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B+ valuation for its ‘omni-bodied’ Skild Brain
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The takeaway
On 2026-01-14 Skild AI closed a $1.4B Series C led by SoftBank at a valuation above $14B to scale Skild Brain, a single robot foundation model meant to control any robot body; Skild said revenue went from zero to about $30M in a few months of 2025.
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- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
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Key facts
- $1.4B Series C led by SoftBank; NVentures, Macquarie Capital, Bezos Expeditions; returning Lightspeed, Felicis, Coatue, Sequoia
- Valuation: over $14B
- Skild calls Skild Brain ‘the industry’s first unified robotics foundation model that generalizes across tasks and robot hardware’
- Deployments in security, construction, delivery, data centers, warehouses and factory assembly
What happened
Skild AI, founded in 2023 by CMU professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, raised one of the largest robotics-software rounds to date.
Why it matters
It shows investors paying frontier-lab-style valuations for a robot “brain” company that does not build its own hardware.
Sources
2 sources from 2 sites. Numbers match the chips in the text.
2 sources: 1 primary, 1 press
Primary
- Skild AI: Announcing Series Cskild.ai, official
Press
- The Robot Report: Skild AI raises $1.4B to build omni-bodied robot braintherobotreport.com, press
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