XDOF in Late-Stage Talks for $1.2B Series B Led by 8VC
Robot training data startup XDOF is in late-stage talks for a Series B round at a valuation of about $1.2 billion, led by 8VC, just three months after closing a $70 million Series A. Annualized revenue has approached $50 million, serving about 20 clients, including several frontier AI labs. Founded in 2024 by UC Berkeley researchers Philipp Wu (CEO) and Fred Shentu (CTO), XDOF collects real-world teleoperation data to train general-purpose robots. Unlike large language models, robots have no internet-scale off-the-shelf data to draw on. XDOF’s business is to fill that gap.
