Robot data startup Mecka AI nabs $60M from Sequoia

Mecka AI raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia, with backing from Nvidia, Microsoft’s M12, and others. The startup pays people to record everyday tasks using sensors and smartphones, creating human motion data for robot training.

The round shows investor conviction that robotics may need its own data infrastructure layer, much as LLMs relied on large-scale labeling and human feedback providers. Competition is intensifying as startups and LLM-era data platforms expand into robotics data, suggesting data quality and collection scale could become key moats.