Recording how people grip, fold and pour is the business behind Mecka's new $60 million funding round. The company announced the Series B on October 7, led by Sequoia Capital with investors including Nvidia, M12, Qualcomm Ventures and Samsung.
The round targets a particular robotics constraint: a model needs examples of physical work, including motion and contact, that ordinary internet text does not provide. Mecka builds recording hardware and turns demonstrations into structured training material.
Its system combines sensors, capture operations and models for tracking movement, reconstructing scenes in three dimensions and aligning signals. The company says it records people in homes and commercial settings.
Mecka also describes a deployment business. It installs robotics systems, records activity at the work site and uses those observations for further training and ongoing operation. That ties the value of the data to tasks customers actually need performed.
The money is intended to expand data infrastructure, research and commercial robot deployment. Those are stated plans, not completed installations purchased with the new round.
Mecka says it passed a $100 million annual revenue run rate in June and targets $300 million by year-end. A run rate extrapolates a recent pace; it is not the same as revenue already earned over a year. The announcement does not provide audited accounts.
The financing therefore backs both a data supplier and a robotics integrator. Its commercial claims come from the company. The disclosed round is $60 million.
