XDOF Raises $70M in Funding

XDOF, a company building data infrastructure for robotics, has emerged from stealth with $70 million in new funding. Based on the need for physical interaction data to train AI models, the company provides data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems to help frontier AI labs and robotics firms develop more capable physical AI.

Investors

Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, a16z, Lux, and WndrCo participated in this round.

XDOF Use of Funds

The capital will be used to build out data pipelines, collection tools, and annotation systems, and to hire and train teams of teleoperators and egocentric data operators to support their large-scale robot training data platform.

About XDOF

Founded in October 2024 by Philipp Wu, Fred Shentu, and Nemo Jin, XDOF aims to bridge the gap in high-quality training data for robotics. The company provides a data ecosystem that includes data cleaning, tooling, and annotation services, and has partnered with UC Berkeley to release a large collection of robot manipulation data.

Funding Details

Company Website: https://xdof.ai

Company: XDOF
Raised: $70M
Funding Date: June 17, 2026
Additional Investors: Thrive Capital, Spark Capital, a16z, Lux, WndrCo
Software Category: Artificial Intelligence
Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/17/collecting-robot-training-data-is-dirty-unglamorous-work-some-ai-labs-are-already-paying-xdof-to-do-it/