{"id":206522,"date":"2025-02-15T06:16:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/figure-ai-is-in-talks-to-raise-1-5b-at-15x-its-last-valuation"},"modified":"2025-02-15T06:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T12:16:40","slug":"figure-ai-is-in-talks-to-raise-1-5b-at-15x-its-last-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/figure-ai-is-in-talks-to-raise-1-5b-at-15x-its-last-valuation","title":{"rendered":"Figure AI is in talks to raise $1.5B at 15x its last valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/figure-ai-is-in-talks-to-raise-1-5b-at-15x-its-last-valuation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Silicon Valley-based robotics startup Figure AI is in talks to raise a massive $1.5 billion round at a $39.5 billion valuation, <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-02-14\/robotics-startup-figure-ai-in-talks-for-new-funding-at-39-5-billion-valuation\">Bloomberg reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s a whopping 15 times higher than Figure\u2019s $2.6 billion post-money valuation for its <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/02\/29\/figure-rides-the-humanoid-robot-hype-wave-to-2-6b-valuation-and-openai-collab\/\">$675 million Series B<\/a> last year. Figure\u2019s current round is expected to be led by Align Ventures and Parkway Venture Capital, Bloomberg reported.<\/p>\n<p>Figure builds humanoid robots for commercial and residential purposes. Humanoid robots are all the rage thanks to the AI boom: Austin-based Apptronik <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/13\/apptronik-raises-350m-to-build-humanoid-robots-with-help-from-google\/\">just raised<\/a> $350 million while Meta is reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/02\/14\/metas-next-big-bet-may-be-humanoid-robotics\/\">looking to get into robotics<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silicon Valley-based robotics startup Figure AI is in talks to raise a massive $1.5 billion round at a $39.5 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. That\u2019s a whopping 15 times higher than Figure\u2019s $2.6 billion post-money valuation for its $675 million Series B last year. Figure\u2019s current round is expected to be led by Align Ventures and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}