{"id":97373,"date":"2026-01-26T20:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97373\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T20:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T20:11:06","slug":"tech-leaders-react-to-skild-ais-1-4-billion-fundraising-round-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/97373\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech leaders react to Skild AI\u2019s $1.4 billion fundraising round \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH  \u2014 East Liberty-based tech startup Skild AI\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/14\/skild-ai-big-raise.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced $1.4 billion Series C<\/a> has Pittsburgh\u2019s tech sector abuzz for what\u2019s next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Skild raised nearly $1.4 billion, valuing the company at $14 billion. The company is developing what it calls a \u201cbrain\u201d for robots, AI software that can be deployed on most pre-existing robotic devices. The Series C was led by Japanese financial titan SoftBank Group with participants including Nvidia\u2019s venture capital arm NVentures and Jeff Bezos, through Bezos Expeditions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThe Skild announcement is really turning into another layer on what\u2019s seeming to be a very tall celebratory cake for Pittsburgh, and these types of valuations are starting to make waves outside of our local conversations and really put Pittsburgh on the map,\u201d Sean Luther, executive director of startup-focused economic development nonprofit InnovatePGH, said. \u201cI think what\u2019s interesting about Skild is that being at the intersection of both the hardware and the \u2018brainware\u2019 section of robotics is a really strong indication that the bets that were placed in our university development around robotics as far as 30 years ago are starting to translate into broader economic opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/skild-ai-fourteen-billion-fundraising-round.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/01\/22\/skild-ai-fourteen-billion-fundraising-round.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 East Liberty-based tech startup Skild AI\u2019s recently announced $1.4 billion Series C has Pittsburgh\u2019s tech sector&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[278,10400,6728,73,75,74,47781,40833,8272,47782],"class_list":["post-97373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-ai","tag-east-liberty","tag-fundraising","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-skild","tag-skild-ai","tag-tech","tag-tech-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97373","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=97373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97373\/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=97373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}