Skild AI raises $1.4 billion

2026-01-14 · Publisher : Skild AI · Domain : Robotics

Skild AI raises a $1.4 billion Series C led by SoftBank with NVentures (NVIDIA), Macquarie Capital and Jeff Bezos, at a valuation above $14 billion.

### Background On January 14, 2026, Skild AI announced a $1.4 billion fundraise. The Series C is led by SoftBank, with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA's venture arm), Macquarie Capital and Jeff Bezos via Bezos Expeditions. The valuation exceeds $14 billion. ### Specifications - **Amount**: $1.4 billion. - **Valuation**: over $14 billion, according to the company. - **Existing investors**: Lightspeed, Felicis, Coatue and Sequoia Capital doubled down. - **Strategic investors**: LG, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit and Salesforce Ventures, among others. - **Product**: the Skild Brain, an "omni-bodied" foundation model presented as able to control any robot without prior knowledge of its body: quadrupeds, humanoids, tabletop arms, mobile manipulators. - **Data**: the company describes a data flywheel fed by four sources, including large-scale pretraining and deployments. ### Why it matters This round ranks among the largest in robotics. It validates the thesis of a universal, hardware-independent software brain and shows investor appetite for robot foundation models. ### Key takeaway Less than two years after its $300 million Series A (July 2024), Skild AI changes scale; the S1 model followed in August 2026.

Tags : Financement, Skild AI, SoftBank, Omni-corps