Mecka Raises $60 Million as Demand for Robot Training Data Grows

NEW YORK — Mecka has raised $60 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital to broaden its dataset of real‑world human motions as developers of humanoid and other robots need those examples to train physical-task AI.

The robotics data startup announced the financing Oct. 7, naming Nvidia, Microsoft's M12 venture fund, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung as new investors. Existing backers Kindred, Framework Ventures and Neo also participated. Mecka did not disclose its valuation.

Robot developers need training datasets illustrating how people handle objects and move through spaces while adapting their movements. Unlike language models, which can draw on large collections of text, robots require information about physical movement, contact and spatial relationships that is harder and more expensive to collect.

Independent research points to the same data shortage. In an Oct. 5 analysis, ABI Research concluded that insufficient high-quality task-specific data presents a significant barrier to deploying physical AI at scale. Separately, researchers behind the EgoVerse project found that robot performance generally improved with additional human demonstration data.

Mecka is developing a business model that leverages this scarcity. The New York-based company records people performing everyday tasks using wearable sensors, cameras and other technology, then processes those recordings into datasets that robotics developers can use to train AI models.

The goal is to reduce developers' need to collect training examples with their own robots. While human demonstrations capture a greater variety of activities, translating those movements into reliable actions for different robots is still a challenge.

Mecka says it supplies data to leading robotics laboratories and major technology companies. It didn't say who its customers are and didn't reveal how much data they buy.

The company reported that its annualized run rate was over $100 million in June 2026 and expect $300 million by year-end. Those figures suggest increasing commercial activity at Mecka, although the run rate isn't the same as actual annual revenue, and the projection has not been independently verified.

The new financing will fund extra data‑collection equipment, expand its research lab, and roll out commercial robot‑integration services. Mecka now helps customers adapt robots using data from the customers' operations. It hasn't released how revenue breaks down between datasets and integration services, and it has not produced independently verified evidence that its data improves robot performance. The round follows a separate $60 million financing announced in June.