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# Skild AI raises $1.4B at $14B+ valuation for its 'omni-bodied' Skild Brain

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

## 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.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): in its training data
- Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): in its training data
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen (training cutoff March 2026): in its training data
- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): in its training data

## Sources

1. [Skild AI: Announcing Series C](https://www.skild.ai/blogs/series-c) (skild.ai, official)
2. [The Robot Report: Skild AI raises $1.4B to build omni-bodied robot brain](https://www.therobotreport.com/skild-ai-raises-1-4b-building-omni-bodied-robot-skild-brain/) (therobotreport.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-09-29 (filed): Created

## Related

- 2026-08-25: [Skild AI's S1 learns 10-minute robot tasks from a single video prompt](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-25-skild-ai-s1/index.md)