Mecka

Robotics · Physical AI · Data Infrastructure

Funding

Mecka raises $60M Series B led by Sequoia, backed by Nvidia, Microsoft

Robots lack a training corpus the way language models had the internet, and this bet targets that gap.

• Mecka raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, with Nvidia, Microsoft's venture arm M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung joining as new investors.
• The Toronto- and New York-based startup pays people to record everyday tasks like making coffee or fixing cars while wearing body sensors, then sells the motion data to humanoid robot developers.
• The round pushes Mecka's total funding past $120 million, following a $60 million Series A closed in two tranches since late 2025 and an earlier $8 million seed.
• Mecka says it passed a $100 million annualized revenue run-rate in June 2026 and expects to reach roughly $300 million by year-end, figures the company has not independently verified.
• Mecka builds its own capture hardware rather than relying on teleoperation, and also acts as an integrator that installs sensors, gathers data on-site, and retrains robot models for clients.
• Rival XDOF was separately reported to be in talks for a Series B near a $1.2 billion valuation, underscoring how aggressively investors are pricing robot-data startups.
• The raise reflects a broader shift in AI investment toward real-world motion and force data, treated as the scarce fuel needed to move robots from labs into everyday physical work.