Key takeaways
- Skild AI is valued at over $14 billion as of June 2026, set by a $1.4B SoftBank-led Series C in January 2026.
- We pressure-test valuations like this against Teahose's library of 1,150+ expert summaries (~1M+ words of analysis across 1,800+ operators and thousands of companies tracked), so the robot-foundation-model thesis here is read against what practitioners are actually saying.
- It is pre-revenue: the number prices "Skild Brain," an omni-bodied robot foundation model, plus a strategics-heavy cap table (Samsung, LG, Schneider, CommonSpirit).
- Most coverage stops at the headline mark; what matters more is SoftBank concentration — one believer led the last two rounds — and the live signal feed below that catches the next round before the press does.
Corpus figures from Teahose's analysis of 1,150+ expert podcast, newsletter & research summaries, June 2026.
As of June 2026, Skild AI is valued at over $14 billion — set by a $1.4 billion Series C announced January 14, 2026, led by SoftBank (Bloomberg, company) — making the Carnegie Mellon-born lab the most highly valued of the pure robot-brain companies.
Key takeaways
- >$14B post-money, Series C, Jan 2026; $1.4B raised, SoftBank-led, with NVentures (Nvidia), Macquarie, Bezos Expeditions, Disruptive, 1789 Capital, and strategics Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit Health, Salesforce Ventures.
- >$2B raised lifetime; valuation up 9.3x in 18 months.
- Revenue: none disclosed — the product is "Skild Brain," an omni-bodied robot foundation model.
- The live feed below catches the next round, partnership, or deployment as the industry discusses it.
Each bar counts how many of Teahose's 1,150+ expert summaries mention it (word-boundary match across our podcast, newsletter, and paper corpus, June 2026).
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Valuation History
| Date | Round | Raised | Post-money valuation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 2026 | Series C | $1.4B | >$14B |
| Mid 2025 | Series B | $135M | $4.5B |
| Jul 2024 | Series A | $300M | $1.5B |
Sources: Series C — Bloomberg · TechCrunch · Series B — Crunchbase News.
What the Number Is Pricing
Skild's pitch is scale pragmatism: train one brain on more robot data than anyone else and let it generalize across bodies — shipping into real industrial customers via the strategics on its cap table rather than waiting for humanoid perfection. The Series C roster reads like a who's-who of companies that deploy machines (Samsung, LG, Schneider, a hospital system), which is the closest thing to commercial validation a pre-revenue lab can show.
The two dynamics worth naming: SoftBank concentration — it led both recent rounds, so the mark reflects one investor's conviction more than a broad auction — and the three-way race with Physical Intelligence ($5.6B confirmed, ~$11B rumored) and hardware-first Figure AI ($39B) to own the robot intelligence layer.
Latest Skild AI Signals, Live
Skild AI Funding & Deal Signals
Extracted live from podcasts, newsletters & primary coverage by the Teahose intel pipeline
- 01MENTIONDeepak Pathak and Abhinav Gupta co-founded Skild AI as a peer brain company to PiJUL 16 · 张小珺Jùn｜商业访谈录JUL 16
- 02MENTIONSkild AI is also a 'brain company' like Pi, focusing on universal foundation models for embodied intelligence but with more exploration of legged humanoids and quadrupedsJUL 16 · 张小珺Jùn｜商业访谈录JUL 16
- 03SCOUTSkild AI is a robotics foundation models company.MAY 31 · T1 ScoutSERIES A · $14B
- 04MENTIONFoundation model labs (Physical Intelligence, Skild, Generalist) are training general-purpose robot "brains"MAY 29 · Crucible CapitalMAY 29
- 05LAUNCHAt Skild, we are building a general purpose brain. So we call this OmniBodied Intelligence. Any robot, any task, one brain.APR 22 · NVIDIA AI PodcastAPR 22
- 06MENTIONRobotics is undergoing the same transformation language did when LLMs replaced verticalized chatbots and search engines - moving from task-specific robots to a shared foundational APR 22 · NVIDIA AI PodcastAPR 22
- 07MENTIONThe core bottleneck in robotics is data scarcity, not compute or hardware - there is no 'internet of robot data'APR 22 · NVIDIA AI PodcastAPR 22
What to Watch Next
- First disclosed commercial economics. Any paid Skild Brain deployment with numbers attached converts the thesis into a multiple.
- The SoftBank factor. Whether the next round is led by someone new is the cleanest test of whether $14B was market price or single-buyer price.
- Cross-pollination signals. Strategic investors becoming customers (Samsung/LG factory deployments, Schneider industrial sites) is the pattern that separates this cluster's winners.
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Editorial figures as of June 10, 2026. The signal feed above updates continuously.
Bottom line: Skild AI is worth over $14 billion as of June 2026 — a pre-revenue mark that prices its omni-bodied Skild Brain and a strategics-heavy cap table, with SoftBank's back-to-back leadership making it as much one believer's conviction as a market price.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Skild AI worth in 2026?
Over $14 billion post-money, set by its $1.4 billion Series C announced January 14, 2026 — led by SoftBank, with Nvidia's NVentures, Macquarie, Bezos Expeditions, Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric, Salesforce Ventures, and others participating. Total raised exceeds $2 billion.
What does Skild AI actually do?
It builds "Skild Brain," a general-purpose robot foundation model designed to be omni-bodied — one model controlling many different robot types (arms, quadrupeds, humanoids) across tasks. It sells intelligence, not hardware; the customers are robot makers and operators.
Does Skild AI have revenue?
None publicly disclosed. Like Physical Intelligence, Skild is valued on the robotics-foundation-model thesis — team, research velocity, and strategic investor demand — rather than commercial traction. The strategic roster (Samsung, LG, Schneider, CommonSpirit Health) hints at where deployments are aimed.
How fast has Skild's valuation grown?
From $1.5B (Series A, July 2024) to $4.5B (Series B, mid-2025) to over $14B (Series C, January 2026) — 3.1x in roughly seven months and 9.3x in eighteen. SoftBank led both of the last two rounds, making concentration in one believer the notable cap-table dynamic.
Who are Skild AI's investors and who led the Series C?
SoftBank led the $1.4 billion Series C announced in January 2026. Participants include Nvidia's NVentures, Macquarie, Bezos Expeditions, Disruptive, 1789 Capital, and strategic backers Samsung, LG, Schneider Electric, CommonSpirit Health, and Salesforce Ventures. SoftBank also led the prior Series B, so much of the valuation rests on a single anchor investor's conviction.
Is Skild AI a good investment compared with Physical Intelligence and Figure AI?
They are pricing the same bet from different angles: Skild AI (over $14B) and Physical Intelligence (around $5.6B confirmed, roughly $11B rumored) sell the robot-brain software layer, while Figure AI (about $39B) is hardware-first. None has disclosed meaningful revenue, so the question is which team's foundation model generalizes across the most robot bodies first. We track all three side by side in our live signal feeds rather than betting on the headline mark.
Will Skild AI go public or get acquired?
There is no announced IPO timeline or acquisition as of June 2026, and at a 14-billion-dollar pre-revenue valuation a near-term exit is unlikely. The cleaner thing to watch is the next funding round: if a new lead replaces SoftBank, that signals broad market demand rather than a single-buyer mark. The live feed on this page surfaces those moves as the industry discusses them.