Overview
One-liner
Multimodal data provider for robotics learning
Investors
Y Combinator, Wing Venture Capital, NVP Capital, OpenAI angels, NVIDIA angels, Google angels, Mercor angels, AfterQuery angels, BAIR (Berkeley AI Research) angels, SAIL (Stanford AI Lab) angels, Brad Boa (Meta) angel
Funding round
Seed
Funding notes
$8.2M seed confirmed by TechCrunch (May 2026) and Inc42. Wing Venture Capital led; NVP Capital co-led. Extensive angel participation from OpenAI, NVIDIA, Google, Mercor, AfterQuery, BAIR, SAIL, and Brad Boa (Meta).
Funding source
Why it's interesting
Market trends shaping Human Archive
- 1Reshoring + CHIPS Act capex driving demand for automation software
- 2Humanoid robots attracting megarounds despite unclear unit economics
- 3Foundation models for robotics (RT-2, Pi) the new platform race
- 4MES and ERP layers being rebuilt by AI-native challengers
- 5Industrial vision and quality inspection a proven, fundable wedge
- 6Contract manufacturing software replacing email + Excel workflows
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