{"id":979106,"date":"2025-12-09T08:01:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T02:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979106"},"modified":"2025-12-09T08:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T03:29:47","slug":"softbank-nvidia-looking-to-invest-in-skild-ai-at-14-billion-valuation-sources-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/09\/softbank-nvidia-looking-to-invest-in-skild-ai-at-14-billion-valuation-sources-say\/","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank, Nvidia looking to invest in Skild AI at $14 billion valuation, sources say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Skild AI, in a more than $1 billion funding round that could value the maker of foundation models for robots at around $14 billion, according to sources and a term sheet seen by Reuters. <\/p>\n<p>If successful, the funding will be at nearly triple Skild&#8217;s valuation from the $4.7 billion it commanded in a $500 million Series B round earlier this year that saw participation from Nvidia, LG&#8217;s venture capital arm and Samsung, among others, according to PitchBook data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japan&#8217;s SoftBank Group and Nvidia are in talks to invest in Skild AI, in a more than $1 billion funding round that could value the maker of foundation models for robots at around $14 billion, according to sources and a term sheet seen by Reuters. If successful, the funding will be at nearly triple Skild&#8217;s valuation from the $4.7 billion it commanded in a $500 million Series B round earlier this year that saw participation from Nvidia, LG&#8217;s venture capital arm and Samsung, among others, according to PitchBook data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=979106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}