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Maxinsights is a Santa Clara, California-based physical AI data company that pays a network of 5,000+ contractors across six countries to film first-person footage of everyday human tasks with proprietary wearable cameras, turning it into training data for robot foundation models.
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Funding history
- 2026-10-22Seed$30M
Investors · Peak XV Partners, Tola Capital, South Park Commons, INCE Capital, Alumni VenturesSource · forbes.com ↗
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Maxinsights
Maxinsights is a Santa Clara, California-based physical AI data company that pays a network of 5,000+ contractors across six countries to film first-person footage of everyday human tasks with proprietary wearable cameras, turning it into training data for robot foundation models.
Seed · $30M · 2026-10
$30M
United States
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Pays everyday workers to wear in-house sensors capturing first-person human motion data, annotated for robotics companies and frontier model teams to train embodied models
Series B · $60M · 2026-10
$60M - XDOF
Real-world teleoperation training data for general-purpose robot foundation models, plus collection tools and cleaning/annotation infrastructure
$70M · 2026-06
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Seed · $31M · 2026-05
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Spatial intelligence and synthetic data provider for embodied AI, with in-house tactile data collection devices and a tactile foundation model, supplying synthetic training data for robotics and autonomous driving.
Angel · 2026-07
— - Kaiwang Data
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Angel · 2026-10
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Europe
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Strategic · $7M · 2026-07
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Undisclosed · 2026-01
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Other / unspecified
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