HedgeCo.Net — Mecka AI, a Toronto- and New York-based startup that collects human motion data to train robots, has raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital. NVIDIA, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung and M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, joined as new investors, while Kindred, Framework Ventures and Neo returned.
The company pays people to record everyday tasks such as folding laundry, making coffee and repairing cars while wearing body sensors, and sells the resulting data to robot developers. Angel investors include DoorDash chief executive Tony Xu and former ServiceNow and Snowflake chief executive Frank Slootman.
The round takes Mecka’s total funding past $120 million, including a $60 million Series A led by Framework Ventures disclosed in June. The company has not disclosed a valuation; TechCrunch previously reported, citing people familiar with the deal, that Sequoia’s round values Mecka at about $500 million.
Mecka claims a $100 million revenue run rate, according to Tech Funding News. The company is positioned in a fast-growing segment supplying real-world physical data, which humanoid robot developers cannot easily gather from the internet in the way large language model developers collected text.
Strategic participation from chipmakers and device companies suggests corporate investors see physical-world data as a bottleneck for robotics. For venture investors, the deal reflects a shift in AI capital from models toward the data supply chains that feed them.