Mecka, a Toronto- and New York-based robotics startup, has raised $60 million in Series B funding to expand its collection of human-motion data and the infrastructure used to train and deploy robots.
Sequoia Capital led the round, with participation from NVIDIA, Microsoft’s M12 venture fund, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung. Mecka plans to use the funding to produce more data-capture hardware, enlarge its research efforts and support additional commercial robot deployments. The company records people performing physical tasks, using sensors, cameras and other equipment to capture movements, contact, force and three-dimensional information that robots need to operate in the real world.
That approach is intended to provide training material that cannot be obtained simply by scraping internet text, images or video. Mecka also offers services spanning robot integration, model training and ongoing operation, extending its business beyond data collection alone. The company said it had exceeded a $100 million annualized revenue run rate in June and expects to reach $300 million by the end of 2026, though those figures are company projections and claims.
The financing highlights growing investor interest in the data and software layers supporting humanoid and other physical-AI systems.