Outsourced data-supply chain for robotics — teleoperation and egocentric data, pipelines and annotation for physical AI.
XDOF collects real-world robot training data - teleoperation, egocentric body-sensor capture, pipelines and annotation - and sells it to frontier AI labs and robotics companies as an outsourced data-supply chain for physical AI. It was co-founded in 2024 by UC Berkeley researchers Philipp Wu (CEO) and Fred Shentu (CTO), whose GELLO teleoperation rig - a low-cost way for a human to drive a robot arm remotely and generate demonstrations - grew out of Wu's PhD work on how robots learn from large datasets and became an influential robotics paper. The company emerged from stealth in June 2026 with a $70M Series A led by Thrive Capital, joined by Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital and Spark Capital, and is partnering with UC Berkeley's AI Research lab on ABC, a robot training dataset it bills as the largest of its kind. Investors describe it as the Scale AI or Mercor of physical robotics. TechCrunch reported on 2026-09-04 that annualized revenue is approaching $50M across 20 customers and that XDOF is in late-stage talks for a Series B at about a $1.2B valuation led by 8VC - terms not final. No valuation has been formally disclosed for any closed round.
Artificial Intelligence📍 Berkeley, CAFounded 2024
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is XDOF going public?
No. XDOF is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is XDOF's valuation in 2026?
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XDOF has raised $70M in total across 1 disclosed round, most recently a Series A of $70M in Jun 2026.
Is XDOF publicly traded — can you buy XDOF stock?
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Company Profile
CEO
Philipp Wu
Founded
2024
HQ
Berkeley, CA
Total Raised
$70M
Est. Revenue
$50M (2026-09-04)
Growth
Annualized revenue approaching $50M less than three months out of stealth; 20 customers, including several frontier AI labs.
Last Round
Series A — $70M (Jun 2026) · Lead: Thrive Capital
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series A · $70M · 3 mo ago
privateTotal raised $70M1 disclosed rounds
Funding History
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series A
$70M
Jun 2026
Thrive Capital
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Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
Open models
0
verified organization
Downloads (30d)
0
across all models
Followers
59
Attributed to Hugging Face organization "XDOF" as of 2026-09-19. Open-weights footprint only — closed-model usage is not publicly measurable. Verify on Hugging Face ↗
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▲ Hiring uptrend
+12% vs 2026-08
Open roles
19
via ashby
Product-build share
58%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
expanding
product-led hiring — 58% of open roles build product; the rest are go-to-market and G&A.
No tracked executive churn; open roles trending up.
Counted from XDOF's live job board as of 2026-09-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Philipp WuFred Shentu
Investors
Thrive Capital · Spark Capital · Andreessen Horowitz · Lux Capital · WndrCo
Products
GELLO - low-cost teleoperation system that lets a human operator drive a robot arm remotely to generate training data
ABC - robot training dataset released with UC Berkeley's AI Research lab, which XDOF calls the largest collection of high-quality robot training data assembled
Teleoperation and egocentric collection programs - trained collector teams worldwide, including body-sensor operators recording everyday tasks
Data pipelines and annotation systems sold to frontier AI labs and robotics companies
Competitors
Mecka AI · Scale AI · micro1 · Mercor
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