Robotics Startup Skild AI Raises $1.4 Billion at Valuation Over $14 Billion
By Elias Schisgall
Skild AI, an artificial-intelligence robotics startup, raised nearly $1.4 billion in a funding round that values the company at more than $14 billion.
The funding round was led by SoftBank Group, with participation from Nvidia's venture capital arm, Jeff Bezos, and 1789 Capital, the venture capital group at which Donald Trump Jr. is a partner, Skild AI said Wednesday.
Other investors included Macquarie Capital, Disruptive, Lightspeed, and Sequoia Capital.
The company is building a unified robotics foundation model called the Skild Brain, which is designed to work for any robot regardless of physical design. Skild said it has grown from zero to around $30 million in revenue in just a few months in 2025.
It will use proceeds from the funding round to scale the model training and work toward deployment, beginning with enterprise tasks.
Write to Elias Schisgall at elias.schisgall@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
January 14, 2026 10:45 ET (15:45 GMT)
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