{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-14-skild-ai-series-c/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-01-14-skild-ai-series-c/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-01-14-skild-ai-series-c","date":"2026-01-14","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B+ valuation for its 'omni-bodied' Skild Brain","deck":null,"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.","category":"business","category_label":"Business","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"Skild AI: Announcing Series C","url":"https://www.skild.ai/blogs/series-c","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"skild.ai"},{"n":2,"title":"The Robot Report: Skild AI raises $1.4B to build omni-bodied robot brain","url":"https://www.therobotreport.com/skild-ai-raises-1-4b-building-omni-bodied-robot-skild-brain/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"therobotreport.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Skild AI","SoftBank","NVIDIA"],"title":"Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B+ valuation for its 'omni-bodied' Skild Brain","summary":"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.","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"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["robotics","funding","foundation-model"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nSkild AI, founded in 2023 by CMU professors Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, raised one of the largest robotics-software rounds to date.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt shows investors paying frontier-lab-style valuations for a robot \"brain\" company that does not build its own hardware.","disputed":[],"related":[{"id":"2026-08-25-skild-ai-s1","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-25-skild-ai-s1/","date":"2026-08-25","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Skild AI's S1 learns 10-minute robot tasks from a single video prompt","deck":null,"takeaway":"Along with Generalist GEN-1.5 six days earlier, S1 marks the arrival of prompt-by-demonstration in robotics, a possible \"GPT-3 moment\" where adding a skill no longer needs a new training run.","category":"robotics","category_label":"Robotics","importance":4,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":4,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Skild AI"]}],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-09-29","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-09-29","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-09-29","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-10-04"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"gemini-4-hydrogen","name":"Gemini 4 Hydrogen","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":null,"in_training_data":true}],"short_url":null}