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Co-Founder & CEO at Skild AI, Faculty at CMU

Thrilled to announce Skild AI! Over the past year, Abhinav Gupta and I have been working with our top-tier team to build an AI foundation model grounded in the physical world. Today, we’re taking Skild AI out of stealth with $300M in Series A funding, led by Lightspeed, Coatue, SoftBank Group Corp., and Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), with participation from Sequoia Capital Felicis Menlo Ventures General Catalyst SV Angel CRV Amazon Carnegie Mellon University. Excited to be working with our wonderful investors: Ravi Mhatre Raviraj Jain Sri Viswanath Stephanie Zhan Vibhor Khanna Aydin Senkut Deep Nishar Matt Murphy Steven Lee Ashvin Bachireddy Murat Bicer Brian Zhan Charles Kennedy Miles Dieffenbach Michael Feinstein Hanns Anders Brock Hayes Special thanks to Rashi Shrivastava for covering our journey. Blog Post: https://lnkd.in/eGnUFcgx News Article: https://lnkd.in/eEtHu7XP

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Amit Goel

Director, Robotics and Edge Computing @ Nvidia

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Congratulations Deepak Pathak and the Skild AI team! Looking forward to our continued collaboration for the next phase.

Dustin Franklin

Principal Engineer at NVIDIA — Jetson AI Lab

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Way to represent PGH robotics Deepak Pathak + team! 👏

Murat Bicer

General Partner at CRV (Charles River Ventures)

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Congrats, Deepak and team!! Excited and honored to partner with you! 🙌

Emi Dawson

Founder of Needlefinder

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It's amazing to see a Pittsburgh company receive this recognition. Now that your team is out of stealth, I can't wait to see what's next.

Smit Patel

AI @ Carnegie Mellon SCS | Software Engineer at Infurnia | IITI '22 | Research Intern at NTU, AUT, IITB, IITI | Ex Summer Intern at Arcesium

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Congratulations Prof. Deepak! Looking forward to meet you in person at CMU soon

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Raviraj Jain

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

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Excited and honored to be your partner from Day 1 as you build a generational company with Skild AI!

Awesome Deepak Pathak. This is amazing stuff, keep going.

looking forward to the future 👏

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Arjun Gupta

AuraML: Co-Founder & CTO: Synthetic Data | Entrepreneur | Startup | Antler, EF | Advanced Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning: IIIT-Hyderabad | Ex-Josh Talks, Magnitude Software | HIGH ACHIEVER.

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Congrats Deepak Pathak and the Skild AI team

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