Generalist

Generalist is an AI robotics company building general intelligence for the physical world and making it useful to everyone.

Robotics and hardware

TIMELINE · MONEY RAISED

Generalist | 362 days from X account to first raise on record

@generalistai·Raised $600M in 2 sourced rounds·1 signal before the first raise

Money raised, round by round (amounts linked to their source). Pins are dated signals; hover the icons for dates.

Funding rounds

1. August 25, 2026
   Series B+ · $200M · $3B valuation
   88VC (lead)
   Source: techcrunch.com
2. June 4, 2026
   Series B+ · $400M · $2B valuation
   RRadical Ventures (lead), 88VC, BBezos Expeditions, BBin Lin, Bboldstart ventures, EEric Yuan, FFei-Fei Li, HHanabi Capital, NNaval Ravikant, NNFDG Ventures, NNorwest Venture Partners, NNVentures (Nvidia), SSpark Capital, UUnion Square Ventures
   Source: generalistai.com
3. June 7, 2025
   X account created
4. December 3, 2022
   Website created

Founders and team

• PF
  Pete Florence Co-Founder & CEO

  @peteflorence · source: x.com
• AZ
  Andy Zeng Co-founder

  @andyzengineer · source: x.com

Investors

• 88VClead investor
• BBezos Expeditions
• BBin Lin
• Bboldstart ventures
• EEric Yuan
• FFei-Fei Li
• HHanabi Capital
• NNaval Ravikant
• NNFDG Ventures
• NNorwest Venture Partners
• NNVentures (Nvidia)
• RRadical Ventureslead investor
• SSpark Capital
• UUnion Square Ventures

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