Eka Robotics raises $150 million Series A to scale its vision-force-action robot model
Cambridge, Massachusetts startup Eka Robotics has raised a $150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, TechCrunch reports, in a round led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime. Seed leads Obvious Ventures and E14 Fund continued, joined by MFV Partners, Bison Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, Samsung Next and several Fortune 500 strategics. Founded in 2024 by MIT professor Pulkit Agrawal and former Google DeepMind researcher Tuomas Haarnoja, Eka trains a vision-force-action model with reinforcement learning in simulation for dexterous manipulation. The company says its robots pick a wide variety of objects outside the training distribution at about 1,500 operations per hour, roughly two and a half times the human baseline, with over 95 percent pick reliability. Eka is running pilots with industrial customers in pick-and-place and wire handling.
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$150 million Series A at a $1.45 billion post-money valuation, announced 20 October 2026
Led by Andreessen Horowitz and F-Prime; seed leads Obvious Ventures and E14 Fund continued, with MFV Partners, Bison Ventures, Glasswing Ventures, Samsung Next and several Fortune 500 strategics
Founded in 2024 in Cambridge, Massachusetts by Pulkit Agrawal, who leads MIT CSAIL's Improbable AI Lab, and Tuomas Haarnoja, co-creator of Soft Actor-Critic and formerly of Google DeepMind
Vision-force-action model trained by reinforcement learning in simulation; Eka says its robots pick about 1,500 objects per hour versus a human baseline of roughly 600, with over 95 percent reliability
Undisclosed industrial pilots in pick-and-place and wire handling; its gripper costs under $1,000 and is rated for 5 million duty cycles
