Persona AI

Persona AI Inc. is a Delaware corporation incorporated in 2024 and based in Houston, Texas. It builds industrial-grade humanoid robots with modular hands that use standard tools, aimed first at shipbuilding tasks such as welding, painting, grinding and confined-space work. Its executive officers and directors are chief executive Nicolaus Radford, chief technology officer Jerry Pratt and chief operating officer Jide Akinyode. It raised a $27 million pre-seed round in May 2025 and announced a deployment agreement with HD Hyundai, and in September 2026 reported $65.36 million sold in a planned $141.96 million private offering.

Latest funding

$65.4M Private offering (Form D, partial)

Total funding

$92.4M

Latest valuation

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Founded

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Country

🇺🇸United States

• Sep 14, 2026Private offering (Form D, partial)$65.4M
• May 14, 2025Pre-seed$27M
  Led by Tides VenturesUnity GrowthMirae Asset GroupInvicta GrowthFathom FundEmbedded VenturesWave Function VenturesZero Infinity PartnersdConstruct TechnologiesGoose CapitalSGHSound Media VenturesKalea VenturesK50 VenturesCofounder VenturesTola CapitalSGA CapitalOlive Hill VenturesK2 Global

• Oct 1, 2026AnalysisSkild AI and Figure top the largest humanoid and embodied-AI funding rounds of 2025-2026, as money moves from robot bodies to robot brains
• Sep 30, 2026PartnershipEni offers Italy's Generative Bionics its plants, polymers and supercomputers in a humanoid robot pact
• Sep 17, 2026FundingD-Robotics raises US$400 million to sell its Sunrise chips as the compute layer for China's robot makers
• Sep 15, 2026FundingShipyard humanoid maker Persona AI reports $65.4 million sold toward a $142 million private offering
• Jun 24, 2026M&AAgility Robotics agrees to go public through Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5 billion pre-money value, with Foxconn leading a $200 million PIPE