How much has Skild AI raised?

Skild AI has raised approximately $1.81B in disclosed equity funding across four rounds: a $14.5M seed in 2023, a $300M Series A in July 2024, a $100M Series B in June 2025, and a $1.4B Series C in January 2026. CEO Deepak Pathak told Bloomberg that total funding exceeds $2B when all tranches are included, suggesting additional undisclosed capital. All known financing is venture equity — there are no disclosed debt rounds, convertible notes, or venture-debt tranches in the public record.

The funding progression is steep even by AI-era standards. Skild went from seed to $14B valuation in approximately 30 months, a pace matched only by the fastest-growing large language model companies. The Series C alone, at $1.4B, is larger than the combined prior three rounds by a factor of 4x, signaling a shift from 'prove the model' to 'scale the deployment infrastructure' — simulation clusters, teleoperation data pipelines, OEM integration engineering, and post-acquisition integration of Zebra's Symmetry Fulfillment platform.

Notably, SoftBank Group has led or co-led every round from the Series A onward, committing capital at an accelerating pace: SoftBank's aggregate investment in Skild likely exceeds $500M across the three rounds. This SoftBank concentration is a meaningful signal for competitors and sellers alike — it represents a sustained strategic conviction in Skild as a platform company, not a one-off bet.

SoftBank Group is the anchor investor, consistent with SoftBank's decade-long thesis on physical automation (it previously backed Boston Dynamics, Arm Holdings, and AutoStore). NVentures (NVIDIA's venture arm) joined at Series B and Series C alongside NVIDIA's operational partnership — NVIDIA has a direct strategic interest in software that drives GPU compute demand from robotic deployments at scale.

Lightspeed Venture Partners co-led both the seed and Series A, calling Skild 'one of the largest early-stage investments Lightspeed has ever made,' and continued increasing its position through the Series C. Sequoia Capital co-led the seed and participated in subsequent rounds, with partner Stephanie Zhan citing the founders' ambition and the scale of the market opportunity in her public write-up. Bezos Expeditions (Jeff Bezos' personal vehicle) has participated from Series A onward, alongside the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Alexa Fund — a strategic relationship that creates optionality for Amazon's massive warehouse robotics footprint.

Strategic investors in the Series C include Samsung and LG (potential OEM distribution for Skild Brain in consumer electronics robots and home appliances), Schneider Electric (building automation and energy management), CommonSpirit Health (healthcare facility robots), Salesforce Ventures, and IQT (In-Q-Tel, the CIA's venture arm) — signaling early defense, government, and intelligence community interest in general-purpose robotic intelligence.

Three catalysts drove the $4.5B-to-$14B re-rating between June 2025 and January 2026. First, Skild reported live revenue growing from zero to approximately $30M within months of its first commercial deployments — a velocity that validated the commercial hypothesis and demonstrated real enterprise willingness to pay for a foundation-model approach rather than building proprietary robot AI in-house.

Second, the company signed marquee OEM integrations — ABB Robotics, Universal Robots, Teradyne's Mobile Industrial Robots — that demonstrated the Skild Brain's ability to run on widely deployed global industrial hardware at scale, expanding the addressable market from greenfield robot deployments to the hundreds of thousands of robots in the existing installed base. The Foxconn deployment on NVIDIA's Blackwell GPU assembly lines provided a flagship proof point in one of the world's highest-profile manufacturing environments.

Third, the competitive landscape clarified in Skild's favor: Physical Intelligence remained the nearest direct competitor but had focused more on household and service robot use cases and had not demonstrated equivalent industrial-OEM deployment breadth. Vertically integrated humanoid companies (Figure, 1X) remained dependent on expensive custom hardware with longer deployment cycles. The Series C re-rated Skild roughly in line with winner-take-most precedent from prior platform transitions — analogous to the valuation premiums commanded by iOS and Android over individual app developers in the mobile era.

Skild AI is not yet profitable. At roughly $30M in early 2025 revenue with hundreds of millions deployed into simulation infrastructure, model training, OEM integration engineering, talent acquisition, and the April 2026 Zebra acquisition integration costs, the company is operating at a significant net loss — consistent with a growth-stage physical AI platform scaling its data flywheel and commercial footprint simultaneously.

An IPO is not publicly planned as of June 2026. At a $14B+ valuation with $1.81B+ raised, Skild has no near-term financing pressure. A public offering becomes plausible when the company can demonstrate sustained $100M+ ARR run rate and durable gross margins typical of software infrastructure companies — probably 2027–2029 at the current growth pace, absent a strategic acquisition offer from a large industrial automation or semiconductor player.

Skild's $1.81B capitalization and $1.4B Series C give it substantial budget authority for enterprise procurement. The Series C press release explicitly earmarks capital for four areas: scaling high-speed simulation clusters, expanding internet-video and teleoperation data collection pipelines, accelerating real-world robot deployments across OEM partners, and integrating the Zebra Technologies Robotics Automation business acquired in April 2026.

This creates active near-term vendor evaluations in: GPU cloud and colocation infrastructure; data labeling, curation, and quality tooling; simulation and synthetic data generation platforms; robotic hardware for teleoperation data collection; enterprise software integration middleware for the Zebra Symmetry platform merger; and workforce analytics and HRIS tools as headcount scales from ~64 to likely 150+ employees through 2026.

The addition of strategic investors (Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric, Salesforce Ventures) signals Skild is building a partner ecosystem, not just a point product — vendors who integrate early with the Skild Brain API gain preferential placement as the platform expands. Sales cycles at Skild will route through the technical founders (Pathak, Gupta) for infrastructure and AI platform decisions; people and talent tools route through Miriam Elmasry; enterprise fleet orchestration and post-Zebra integration likely routes through a yet-to-be-named enterprise product leader. The Foxconn, ABB, and Universal Robots OEM partnerships also mean suppliers to those robot manufacturers gain indirect access to Skild's deployment pipeline.