🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - January 2025

And Field AI is the latest robotics unicorn+ with funding from Gates, Bezos, Nvidia etc.

Bill Gates-backed robotics startup Field AI has raised $405 million in two funding rounds with investments from Jeff Bezos’ family office and Nvidia’s venture arm.

• The latest round values the two-year-old startup at $2 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.

• Field AI’s latest round comes during a busy period for robotics startups as companies look to beef up their artificial intelligence offerings and improve efficiency.

The funding comes during an “aha moment,” founder and CEO Ali Agha told CNBC, as software and hardware reach an inflection point. (Read more at CNBC - https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/gates-nvidia-fieldai-robotics.html

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Taking a look back at January 2025 and who got funded. I share this data from a robotics dataset that I’ve worked with for 15 years. It’s not perfect but the overall trends and totals are solid.

Here’s a look at some of the funding rounds, by company, location, amount raised and with some of the top investors listed. I’ll work on dropping these lists more regularly!