Skild AI is building a scalable, general-purpose AI foundation model for robotics. Founded in 2023 by Deepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta, two former Carnegie Mellon University professors and Facebook AI Research scientists, the company aims to create a universal "brain" for robots that can perform any task across any environment and hardware platform. Unlike traditional robotics approaches that require task-specific programming, Skild's model is trained on diverse data to generalize across applications. The company raised a massive $300M Series A led by Coatue, SoftBank, and Lightspeed in 2024, and has since raised close to $1.4 billion, making it one of the most well-funded AI robotics startups globally.
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Coatue Management
SoftBank Vision Fund
