Anjali Sardana has launched Provision Labs, a San Francisco startup building data, evaluation, and deployment infrastructure for physical AI systems used by robots and machines. The company is backed by Lachy Groom, General Catalyst, Bain Capital Ventures, and Glade Brook Capital, but it has not disclosed its funding amount or first commercial customers. Sardana will lead Provision Labs while continuing as CEO of Pronto, although the two companies have not confirmed that they share data.
Airbound, a Bengaluru-based autonomous drone startup, has raised $37 million in Series A funding led by Greenoaks, with participation from DoorDash, Lachy Groom, Lightspeed, and Humba Ventures. The company is building vertical-flight drones designed to weigh less than the cargo they carry, with plans to create a drone delivery network connecting three cities in Andhra Pradesh and eventually achieve cost parity with trucking.
The new model, called π0.7, represents what the company describes as an early but meaningful step toward the long-sought goal of a general-purpose robot brain.