[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-eka-robotics-raises-150m-series-a-at-a-145b-valuation":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},12269,"eka-robotics-raises-150m-series-a-at-a-145b-valuation","Eka Robotics Raises $150M Series A at a $1.45B Valuation","A Cambridge startup building robots that use touch as well as sight landed a $150M round led by a16z and F-Prime.","Eka Robotics, a Cambridge, Massachusetts startup, has raised a $150M Series A to build robots that handle objects by touch as well as sight.\n\nAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) and F-Prime led the round, and Eka announced it on its blog on Tuesday. Reporting on the deal put the valuation at $1.45B post-money, meaning the figure includes the new cash.\n\nThe pitch is a response to a familiar weakness. Cameras let a robot find an object, but they say little about how firmly it is gripped or whether it is starting to slip. Humans handle that without thinking, and robots mostly do not. A machine that can feel what it holds could, in principle, take on fiddly jobs that today still go to people.\n\nThe size of the round is the other notable detail. A Series A is normally a company's first large institutional raise, and $150M at a $1.45B valuation is far above what that label usually implies. Investors are paying for a technical bet on dexterity, not for a track record.\n\nThe source material gives no product, customer, or revenue detail, so there is nothing yet to test the bet against. The open question is which tasks Eka wants its robots to own first, whether that is picking, assembly, or something else, and how soon it can show them doing it.","[\"robotics\",\"funding\",\"series-a\",\"a16z\"]","2026-10-23T12:44:27.000Z","2026-10-23T13:31:51.305Z","2026-10-23T13:31:53.805Z","published",null,[24],{"id":25,"reviewer":26,"round":27,"reason":28,"status":29},"editor-r1","editor",1,"The source says only that Eka announced on 'Tuesday', so replace the unsupported 'October 20' date with 'Tuesday' or a verified date; also drop the 'force sensing' wording the source doesn't use (it says 'touch as well as sight'), and replace the awkward 'as summarized here' with a plain statement that the source gives no product, customer, or revenue detail.","resolved","startups",[32,33,34,35],"robotics","funding","series-a","a16z",[37],{"name":38,"url":39},"The Next Web","https:\u002F\u002Fthenextweb.com\u002Fnews\u002Feka-robotics-150m-series-a-vision-force-robots",0,{"sections":42},[43,48,53,58,63,68,73,78,81,86,91,96,101,106],{"name":44,"slug":45,"count":46,"latest_published_at":47},"AI","ai",7072,"2026-10-23T14:18:39.000Z",{"name":49,"slug":50,"count":51,"latest_published_at":52},"Security","security",1060,"2026-10-23T11:00:00.000Z",{"name":54,"slug":55,"count":56,"latest_published_at":57},"Policy","policy",578,"2026-10-23T14:47:41.000Z",{"name":59,"slug":60,"count":61,"latest_published_at":62},"Deals","deals",569,"2026-10-23T14:43:38.000Z",{"name":64,"slug":65,"count":66,"latest_published_at":67},"Hardware","hardware",291,"2026-10-23T13:30:00.000Z",{"name":69,"slug":70,"count":71,"latest_published_at":72},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",290,"2026-10-23T08:23:42.000Z",{"name":74,"slug":75,"count":76,"latest_published_at":77},"Science","science",216,"2026-10-22T22:12:19.000Z",{"name":79,"slug":30,"count":80,"latest_published_at":18},"Startups",147,{"name":82,"slug":83,"count":84,"latest_published_at":85},"Software","software",142,"2026-10-23T00:09:58.000Z",{"name":87,"slug":88,"count":89,"latest_published_at":90},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",122,"2026-10-21T16:00:00.000Z",{"name":92,"slug":93,"count":94,"latest_published_at":95},"General","general",100,"2026-10-23T13:36:50.000Z",{"name":97,"slug":98,"count":99,"latest_published_at":100},"Gaming","gaming",88,"2026-10-22T22:25:33.000Z",{"name":102,"slug":103,"count":104,"latest_published_at":105},"Reviews","reviews",38,"2026-10-20T12:00:00.000Z",{"name":107,"slug":108,"count":109,"latest_published_at":110},"How-To","how-to",8,"2026-10-05T09:00:00.000Z"]