Darwin Robotics
General-purpose robot technicians that assemble, commission, and maintain critical infrastructure, starting with data centers. darwinrobotics.ai
Funding
- $3.6 million pre-seed, announced November 5, 2026. Led by Link Ventures. Y Combinator, Liquid 2 Ventures, Rebel Fund, Globivest, Script Capital and angel investors including founders of OpenAI, xAI and Y Combinator also participated. Listed in the AI startup funding roster for November 1–7, 2026. Sources: Darwin Robotics announcement, RuntimeWire.
Of the 42 pre-seed rounds with exactly stated amounts in dollars on Presspool's weekly rosters since September 21, 2026, Darwin Robotics' $3.6 million is the 17th largest; their median is $3 million.
Whether AI names Darwin Robotics
- Machine Relations Index: Not cited in any Machine Relations Index answer, May 10, 2026 to November 12, 2026.
Related records
Closest rounds in the roster for November 1–7, 2026: Venomics AI ($2.7M pre-seed, November 2, 2026), Athena ($2.5M pre-seed, November 3, 2026), Siggy ($6 million pre-seed, November 5, 2026), Janus Labs AI ($1.8 million pre-seed, November 3, 2026), Nayara (undisclosed pre-seed, November 5, 2026), CyberKord (€2.7M pre-seed, November 3, 2026).
Y Combinator, named as an investor in this round, led BioStack ($9.5 million Seed, October 22, 2026). It is also named as an investor in Tractian ($130M Series D, October 22, 2026), Firstwork ($15 million Series A, October 21, 2026), Minicor ($3.8 million Seed, October 14, 2026), LightSprint ($6.1 million Seed, October 13, 2026), Readily ($11 million Series A, October 13, 2026), Flai ($27 million Series A, October 6, 2026), Vitalize ($31 million Series A, October 6, 2026), Ocular AI ($2 million Pre-seed, October 5, 2026) and Revnu ($3 million, round type not disclosed, October 1, 2026).