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As of: 2026-10-09 19:24 CEST.
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# Mecka, which pays people to record everyday tasks in body sensors to train humanoid robots, raises $60M led by Sequoia

On Oct 7, 2026 TechCrunch reported that Mecka AI, founded in 2024, raised a $60M Series B at a $500M valuation, led by Sequoia with Nvidia and Microsoft's M12. Mecka pays people to record everyday tasks such as making coffee or fixing cars while wearing body sensors and phones, and sells the motion data to train humanoid and other robots. It is part of a wave of "Scale AI for robots" data companies.

## Key facts
- Series B: $60M at a $500M valuation; led by Sequoia, with Nvidia, M12 (Microsoft) and others (TechCrunch)
- Method: paid contributors wear body sensors and smartphones while doing everyday activities
- Competitors named: XDOF (in Series B talks at $1.2B), plus Scale AI and Micro1 expanding from LLM data into robotics

## What happened

Mecka AI raised $60 million to scale its collection of human-motion data. Robot makers have little real-world data compared with the
text used to train LLMs, and Mecka pays people to record their ordinary physical work to fill that gap.

## Why it matters

Training data is the main bottleneck for general-purpose robot policies. Firms that supply it at scale now draw the same top-tier backers
that funded LLM data vendors.

## Your AI and this story

- GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 160 days after its cutoff
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- Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 129 days after its cutoff

## Sources

1. [TechCrunch: Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia](https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/07/robot-data-startup-mecka-ai-nabs-60m-from-sequoia/) (techcrunch.com, press)

## Changes

- 2026-10-09 (filed): Created