General-purpose humanoid robots — Phoenix powered by the Carbon cognitive system
Sanctuary AI is a Vancouver-based humanoid robotics company building Phoenix — a general-purpose bipedal robot powered by its proprietary Carbon cognitive AI system. The company was founded in 2018 by Geordie Rose (CEO, also founder of D-Wave Systems), Suzanne Gildert, Olivia Norton, and Ajay Agrawal. Phoenix is targeted at labor-shortage industrial and retail tasks; the 7th-gen platform completed 110 retail-related tasks during a 2024 pilot at a Mark's store in British Columbia. Total funding to date is ~C$148.6M, including a C$30M Strategic Innovation Fund contribution from the Government of Canada. The 2025 BDC + InBC strategic round expands Phoenix's commercial deployments.
Robotics📍 Vancouver, CanadaFounded 2018
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Sanctuary AI going public?
No. Sanctuary AI is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Sanctuary AI's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Sanctuary AI. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Sanctuary AI filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Sanctuary AI.
Who are Sanctuary AI's investors?
Sanctuary AI's investors include BDC Capital, InBC Investment Corp, Accenture, Bell, Export Development Canada, Evok Innovations and 5 more.
Answers are derived from the roster record shown on this page — filing status, last round and confirmed marks. Where the record is silent, the answer says so rather than guessing.
Company Profile
CEO
Geordie Rose
Founded
2018
HQ
Vancouver, Canada
Employees
~110
Total Raised
$110M
Growth
~C$148.6M total raised including C$30M Strategic Innovation Fund grant; smaller than US humanoid peers' single rounds
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Strategic financing (BDC + InBC) · 1y 4mo ago
privateTotal raised $110M
Secondary Market
Implied price / share
$8.6
Open interest
4
Secondary price return by period
Implied per-share price from private secondary transactions, as of Jun 2026. This is a point estimate, not a quote — the feed carries no bid, ask or spread, and a secondary print is evidence of what someone paid on that date rather than a live market. Compare across every tracked name →
Latest Funding Round
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Strategic financing (BDC + InBC)
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Apr 2025
BDC Capital / InBC Investment Corp
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Talent Signal
Hiring trend
● First snapshot
trend accrues with monthly sweeps
Open roles
10
via ashby
Product-build share
10%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
steady
go-to-market push — Only 10% of open roles build product — hiring is concentrated in sales/marketing/ops (5 of 10 open roles are other).
Actively hiring with no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Civil EngineerAssociate - Capital MarketsSenior FP&A AssociateConstruction coordinatorJunior Associate - Capital MarketsFinance Operations Lead
Counted from Sanctuary AI's live job board as of 2026-08-17; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
BDC Capital · InBC Investment Corp · Accenture · Bell · Export Development Canada · Evok Innovations · Magna International · SE Health · Verizon Ventures · Workday Ventures · Government of Canada (Strategic Innovation Fund)
Products
Phoenix (7th-gen general-purpose humanoid robot)
Carbon (proprietary AI cognitive system)
Competitors
Figure AI · 1X Technologies · Apptronik · Agility Robotics · Tesla Optimus
RoboticsHumanoidCanadaAI
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of recent date. Refreshed quarterly.