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Worth-Joining Index · Scorecard
v2.1 ALPHA · 2026-08Career Score
—/100
Coverage
51%
Verified
17%
Stage cohort
Early
Vibe Check
🎪 community voting coming soon
Latest valuation
$14B+ (Series C, 2026-01)
Total raised
~$2B+ total raised (as of 2026-01)
Traction · Key numbers
Funding
Total raised
~$2B+ total raised (as of 2026-01)
Rounds
3
Valuation pace
Valuation tripled from $4.5B to $14B+ in 7 months
$1.4B
Series C · 2026-01 · valuation $14B+ post (Series C, 2026-01) · led by SoftBank
With: Nvidia, Macquarie Group, 1789 Capital · Company has raised over $2B to date
Series B · 2025 · led by SoftBank
SoftBank invested roughly $100M
$300M
Series A · 2024-07 · led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Coatue, SoftBank Group
With: Bezos Expeditions
▸SoftBank led two consecutive rounds and tripled the valuation in 7 months — a Son-style 'bet on the category leader' move rather than disciplined financial pricing
▸Heavy strategic participation (Samsung, LG, Salesforce Ventures, Schneider, NVIDIA) signals big players positioning for embodied-AI supply chain access or future partnership/M&A, not pure financial return
▸~$30M revenue against a $14B valuation is a 400x+ revenue multiple — a bet priced on platform potential, well ahead of commercial proof
Founders
Deepak Pathak CEO
Former Carnegie Mellon CS professor, PhD in AI from Berkeley
Abhinav Gupta President
Former Carnegie Mellon professor, PhD in CS from University of Maryland, previously a researcher at Meta
Reality · Working here
Signals & Risks
Editorial ✎
Good fit for
· Robotics/RL researchers who want to build a single model driving many robot embodiments — hard foundational research, not single-scenario engineering
· Engineers willing to debug systems on real factory floors, construction sites, and warehouses — the bar is the physical world, not a demo reel
· Senior people comfortable with SoftBank-level investor scrutiny and heavy media exposure that comes with a $14B valuation
Not for
· Anyone wanting near-term certainty, a mature product line, and stable customer relationships — commercialization is still early, far behind what the valuation implies
· Anyone who needs clear quarterly KPIs rather than a research-before-product pace
Ask in the interview
1. How much of the ~$30M revenue is recurring contract revenue versus one-off pilots/POCs?
2. What are the real-world failure/reliability rates of the 'general robot brain' approach, and how does it compare to Physical Intelligence, Figure AI, and other competitors?
3. After tripling valuation in 7 months, what does the next round need to prove — how does the company avoid a valuation-outrunning-reality spiral?
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