Startup profile for XDOF: latest funding, latest known valuation, total disclosed funding, investors, status, sources, and why the company is interesting. Part of the Venture Capital Tracker startup directory.
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XDOF funding, valuation and investors

Robot teleoperation and egocentric-data vendor in late-stage Series B talks at about $1.2 billion — amount and close undisclosed.

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Funding, valuation & investors

Answer-first snapshot

Latest funding

Series B talks (unnamed size)

Amount not disclosed · September 2026

Latest known valuation

$1.2B (reported talks)

Series B talks (unnamed size) · September 2026

Total disclosed equity funding

$70M

Excludes debt, grants, acquisitions, secondaries, and IPO proceeds.

Current status

private

growth · USA

Investors in latest funding

Lead: 8VC

Sources: latest funding Last verified: 2026-09-05

Overview

XDOF (xdof.ai, pronounced ecks-doff) collects real-world teleoperation and wearable-sensor data to train general-purpose robots. Founded October 2024 by Philipp Wu (CEO), Fred Shentu (CTO), and Nemo Jin (COO) out of UC Berkeley’s GELLO teleoperation work. TechCrunch (June 17, 2026) said the company left stealth with $70 million from Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, and WndrCo; Cooley coverage called that a Series A. Wu then said XDOF had about 60 employees and 20 customers, including unnamed frontier labs, and was releasing the ABC / ABC-130K dataset with Berkeley AI Research. On September 4, 2026 TechCrunch, citing several people, said the company was in late-stage Series B talks at about $1.2 billion led by 8VC, with annualized revenue approaching $50 million. Terms were not final. Round size was not disclosed. XDOF and 8VC did not comment. Directory funds: 8VC, Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Spark Capital, Lux Capital. No /fund/ page for WndrCo. XDOF is not Lyte (perception silicon), Human Archive (India gig collection), or AfterQuery (expert-text data).

Why XDOF is interesting

TechCrunch (September 4, 2026), citing several people, said XDOF is in late-stage Series B talks at about $1.2 billion led by 8VC, less than three months after a $70 million stealth print. Check size, pre vs post, and close were not disclosed. XDOF and 8VC did not comment.

Product & use cases

Data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation for robot foundation models: on-robot teleoperation, lower-cost GELLO-style teleop, and egocentric wearable capture of everyday tasks.

  • Frontier labs that need physical-interaction data they cannot scrape
  • Robotics companies that will not build their own teleop warehouses
  • Open academic pre-training sets (ABC / ABC-130K with Berkeley AI Research)

Key facts

  • Sep 4, 2026: ~$1.2B Series B talks led by 8VC (TechCrunch, several people); amount/close undisclosed; company silent
  • Jun 17, 2026: $70M stealth print; Thrive, Spark, a16z, Lux, WndrCo; Cooley called it Series A; no valuation
  • June company-to-TC: ~60 staff, 20 customers including unnamed frontier labs
  • Sep 4 sources: ARR approaching $50M — not a filing
  • Not Lyte, not Human Archive, not AfterQuery, not YC

Funding history (newest first)

Series B talks (unnamed size)

2026-09 Valuation: $1.2B (reported talks)

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/xdof-just-three-months-out-of-stealth-is-in-talks-for-a-series-b-at-a-1-2b-valuation/

Series A (Cooley label)

2026-06 $70M

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/collecting-robot-training-data-is-dirty-unglamorous-work-some-ai-labs-are-already-paying-xdof-to-do-it/

Investors in our directory

Funds linked from XDOF's profile — open a fund page for stage focus and related deal articles.

8VC Thrive Capital Andreessen Horowitz Spark Capital Lux Capital

Competitive landscape

Edge: Company claim is an outsourced physical-data supply chain, not a robot OEM. The $1.2B print is talks, not a close.

XDOF is priced like scarce physical-data infrastructure. Diligence is whether $1.2B is a closed 8VC round and whether the $50M ARR is booked.

  • Lyte adjacent

    Robot perception silicon, not training-data ops. See /startup/lyte.

  • Human Archive adjacent

    India gig collection for physical AI. See /2026-human-archive-8m-physical-ai-data-india.

  • AfterQuery adjacent

    Expert-text / RL data for labs, not robots. See /startup/afterquery.

Notable stories

  • Wu and Shentu’s GELLO paper is the research origin. ABC-130K is the open dataset claim (June TC / SiliconANGLE).

Industries

AI & Machine Learning Robotics Deep Tech

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Collects teleoperation and wearable-sensor data, plus tooling and annotation, so labs and robotics companies can train physical foundation models.
TechCrunch reported late-stage Series B talks at about $1.2 billion on September 4, 2026, with 8VC as lead. Round size and close were not disclosed. The company did not comment.
June 2026: Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, and WndrCo. September talks: 8VC described as lead. WndrCo has no /fund/ page here.
No. It is not listed as a Y Combinator company in the September 4 coverage.
Private as of September 2026. No ticker.
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