{"id":89422,"date":"2026-01-17T13:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89422\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T13:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T13:46:09","slug":"skild-ai-raises-1-4-billion-hits-valuation-over-14-billion-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89422\/","title":{"rendered":"Skild AI raises $1.4 billion, hits valuation over $14 billion \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Skild AI has raised nearly $1.4 billion in funding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The Pittsburgh-based company made the announcement on Wednesday. According to a release from Skild, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2025\/12\/08\/softbank-nvidia-skildai-14-bil.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the raise<\/a> was led by SoftBank Group, with participation from NVentures (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/organization\/nvidia\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NVIDIA<\/a>\u2018s venture capital arm), Macquarie Capital (entities managed by Macquarie Capital), Jeff Bezos (through Bezos Expeditions), Disruptive and 1789 Capital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The latest funding brings the company\u2019s valuation to over $14 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/14\/skild-ai-big-raise.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/14\/skild-ai-big-raise.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Skild AI has raised nearly $1.4 billion in funding. The Pittsburgh-based company made the announcement on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[44317,278,1609,37253,44315,7153,1126,44316,676,28066,44314,83,44312,73,75,74,42782,40833,44313,44318],"class_list":["post-89422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-1789-capital","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-based","tag-bezos-expeditions","tag-billion","tag-company","tag-disruptive","tag-funding","tag-jeff-bezos","tag-macquarie-capital","tag-money","tag-nventures","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-raise","tag-skild-ai","tag-softbank-group","tag-valuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}