Rhoda AI

After about 18 months in stealth, Rhoda AI announced its public launch and a $450 million Series A for research, industrial deployments and customer pilots. Named backers included Khosla VenturesKhosla VenturesKhosla Ventures (KV) is an American venture capital firm founded in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, the founding CEO of Sun Microsystems, and headquartered in Menlo Park, California. It made heavy early bets on clean technology, became OpenAI’s first venture capital investor in 2019, and its portfolio also includes companies such as DoorDash, Block (formerly Square), Impossible Foods, and Rocket Lab.Open the full entry, Mayfield, Premji InvestPremji InvestPremji Invest is an investment firm established by Azim Premji in 2006, operating across private and public markets in India and the United States, with investment returns primarily supporting the philanthropic work of the Azim Premji Foundation. Its investment areas include technology, financial services, consumer, healthcare and industrials.Open the full entry, Temasek and Xora.⁠[1]

FutureVision uses what the company calls Direct Video Action: learning motion from large video datasets, then mapping predictions to actions with robot data in an observation-prediction-feedback loop. Rhoda plans to license this intelligence layer across different hardware partners.⁠[1]

The website lists co-founder and CEO Jagdeep Singh, co-founder and chief scientist Eric Chan, co-founder and scientific adviser Gordon Wetzstein, co-founder and chief product officer Andrew Wooten, and co-founder and chief research officer Changan Chen.⁠[2]

Davidovs Venture CollectiveDavidovs Venture CollectiveDavidovs Venture Collective (DVC) is a venture capital firm founded in 2021 by Nick Davidov and Marina Davidova, focused on early-stage AI companies, repeat founders and an active investor community.Open the full entry identifies Rhoda AI as one of its portfolio companies.⁠[3]

Rhoda AI’s official website. Official website: https://www.rhoda.ai/ (opens in a new window).⁠[4]