Mecka AI is drawing attention with one number: $100 million in annualized contracted revenue. The New York startup has only about 40 people, but it says customer demand for robot training data is already turning into large contracts.
The company has raised $60 million across two pieces: a $25 million Series A last November and a later $35 million extension. Both were led by Framework Ventures, a fund better known for crypto investments. Framework co-founder Vance Spencer called Mecka the fastest-growing revenue company the firm has ever backed. Menlo Ventures, SV Angel, Kindred Ventures and angel investor Ted Xiao also joined.
Mecka does not build robots or foundation models. It sells the hard upstream ingredient: real-world motion data. Instead of slow teleoperation, where humans move robot arms frame by frame, Mecka records people directly with body-worn sensors and ordinary iPhones. CEO Josh Gao went to Shenzhen to customize the motion-capture setup.
The company also helps customers make robot models work in deployment, turning the business from raw data into data plus implementation. None of the four founders came out of a traditional robotics lab, but their bet is practical: useful robots can be deployed today if they get enough high-quality physical-world examples.
Sources: Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones (Fortune); Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, June 1, 2026 (Tech Startups); CocoLoop.