Kleiner Perkins Leads $400 Million Round in Mind Robotics

<p><strong>PALO ALTO<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cts&period;businesswire&period;com&sol;ct&sol;CT&quest;id&equals;smartlink&amp&semi;url&equals;http&percnt;3A&percnt;2F&percnt;2Fwww&period;mindrobotics&period;com&amp&semi;esheet&equals;54534936&amp&semi;newsitemid&equals;20260513731983&amp&semi;lan&equals;en-US&amp&semi;anchor&equals;Mind&plus;Robotics&amp&semi;index&equals;1&amp&semi;md5&equals;194789d0968d2cd8f8668ec4421930ac" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"nofollow noopener" shape&equals;"rect">Mind Robotics<&sol;a> has scored a &dollar;400 million financing led by Kleiner Perkins&comma; bringing total investment in the company to over &dollar;1 billion&period; This financing included participation from new investors including Meritech Capital&comma; Redpoint Ventures&comma; SV Angel&comma; Incharge Capital&comma; A-Star Capital&comma; and Garuda Ventures as well as existing investors including Accel&comma; Andreessen Horowitz&comma; Eclipse&comma; Prysm Capital&comma; Bain Capital Ventures&comma; and Greenoaks&period; This follows a seed financing of &dollar;115 million in late 2025 and a Series A of &dollar;500 million in March 2026&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>RJ Scaringe&comma; founder of Mind Robotics&comma; is also founder and CEO of Rivian Automotive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mind Robotics is building the world&&num;8217&semi;s leading industrial robotics platform&comma; combining foundation models&comma; robust hardware&comma; and deployment infrastructure to automate dexterous&comma; reasoning-intensive manufacturing tasks at scale&period; The company operates with Rivian as a key partner and shareholder&comma; providing a live&comma; high-volume manufacturing environment for model training and deployment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;We are excited about the technology and product roadmap we are developing at Mind&comma; with a focus on scaled deployments&comma;” said RJ Scaringe&comma; Founder of Mind Robotics&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are proud to have Kleiner Perkins and our full investor coalition behind us&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Robotics is the ultimate frontier&comma;” said Ilya Fushman&comma; Partner at Kleiner Perkins&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It is poised to become one of the biggest markets&comma; and advances in models and hardware are coming together to make this possible&period; Mind Robotics has unique access to all the ingredients required to make general-purpose robotics work in real-world manufacturing&comma; and we’re thrilled to lead this round&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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