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🦾 Robotics Funding Rounds by Month - June 2026

Defense is booming - or is it a bubble?

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Andra Keay
Jul 05, 2026
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According to Anduril’s CEO Brian Schimpf via Fortune, defense tech is becoming a bubble with valuations increasingly divorced from reality. Anduril, of course, is now valued at $61 Billion. In the first quarter of 2026, VCs deployed a record $19.8 billion into defense tech across 262 deals, according to PitchBook. (For comparison: That number in Q1 2024 was $5.7 billion, and in Q1 2025 was about $17 billion.) It’s a big shift in investor appetite from just 5 or 6 years ago.

Some Bay Area companies that raised in June were Generalist AI, Rokid, Lightwheel, Tombot, Dexterity, Proception, Nuro, Queue, Uvify, Applied Intuition, InLoop Robotics. Ornadyne, Intelligence Factory, Complete Robot, Andustry, Advanced Metal Research, Arlo Industries and TwoLab.

Here’s the break down of June robotics funding data - 136 funding rounds for a total of $6,570,460,729 USD which is a similar total to May with slightly more rounds. No funding amount is reported for approx 33% of entries, and large late stage rounds always skew the totals. You can find 2025 in the archives and here are the links to the rest of 2026:

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