First Round Capital is a venture capital firm. Its humanoid robotics portfolio includes Proception.
Round size: $11M
Manual entity-ingest supporting URL (2026-10-24)
Proception raised $11 million in seed funding led by First Round Capital, with participation from Y Combinator and BoxGroup, to expand hiring, scale production and develop its dexterous-manipulation hardware and data systems. The company launched ProHand 1.0, a 22-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven robotic hand with skin-like contact sensors, along with ProGlove, a wearable system that collects human hand-interaction data for training robotic manipulation. The article also notes that founder Jay Li recently settled a Tesla lawsuit over alleged trade-secret theft.