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Round size: $150M
Round size: $150M
Round size: $64M
Samsung Next is the corporate venture arm of Samsung Electronics. We back founders building the technologies that define the next decade, where atoms matter as much as bits, and expertly chart a course through Samsung's global ecosystem on their behalf.
Eka Robotics raised $150 million in Series A funding to scale its vision-force-action model and customer deployments. The company claims its simulation-trained reinforcement-learning approach enables robots to generalize across objects and tasks while performing dexterous manipulation at roughly 1,500 operations per hour.
Mecka has raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, with Nvidia, Microsoft M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung joining as new investors. The company builds capture hardware and processes human demonstrations into structured motion and 3D data for robot model training, and also offers robot integration, on-site data collection, model training and ongoing operation. Mecka reports passing a $100M revenue run rate in June and projects $300M by year-end, though the announcement does not disclose a valuation or name major customers.
Dyna Series A funding announcement — $120M, investors include Robostrategy, CRV, First Round Capital, NVIDIA Ventures, Amazon Innovation Fund, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures