Sources, PitchBook data, and news reports: the founders of Perplexity, Figure AI, Safe Superintelligence, Harvey, and others joined the nine-figure club in 2025
Just like past tech booms, the latest frenzy has produced a group of billionaires — at least on paper — from smaller start-ups.
Figure AI's former head of product safety sues the humanoid robot startup, alleging he was unlawfully terminated after warning executives about product safety
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A look at data labeling startups like Objectways, whose workers record and annotate repetitive tasks like folding towels to train AI robots for physical tasks
where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. https://www.latimes.com/... [video] Nilesh Christopher / @nilchristopher...
A look at Figure AI's new robot, Figure 03, which the company claims will be its first mass-producible humanoid capable of domestic chores and industrial labor
A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company's Silicon Valley headquarters.
Humanoid robot startup Figure raised a $1B+ Series C led by Parkway Venture Capital at a post-money valuation of $39B, up from $2.6B in February 2024
Figure AI Inc., a company developing humanoid robots, has received more than $1 billion in committed capital in a financing round that values …
Robotics startup Figure AI confirms raising $675M at a $2.6B valuation and is partnering with OpenAI to “develop next-generation AI models for humanoid robots”
we're collaborating with @Figure_robot to expand our multimodal models to robotic perception, reasoning, and interaction. https://www.prnewswire.com/... Adam Cochran / @adamscochran : ChatGPT with arm...
Humanoid robot maker Figure AI confirms it has raised $675M at a $2.6B valuation and shows off a general-purpose robot called Figure 01
- Figure AI raised $675 million from investors including Jeff Bezos, Nvidia, Amazon, Microsoft and OpenAI. — The startup says it will use the money …
Sources: Jeff Bezos is investing $100M, Microsoft is investing $95M, and Nvidia $50M in humanoid robot startup Figure's ~$675M funding round at a ~$2B valuation
- Figure AI also gets investments from Intel, Samsung and Amazon — Company, valued at roughly $2 billion, is raising $675 million
Source: Figure, which is building a humanoid robot, is in talks to raise as much as $500M in a round led by Microsoft and OpenAI at a $1.9B pre-money valuation
could we see ChatGPT robots soon? Jyoti Mann / Business Insider : Microsoft and OpenAI are in talks to inject $500 million into humanoid robotics startup Figure AI, report says K L Krithika / Analytic...