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US startup building general-purpose humanoid robots for warehouse and logistics work, emphasizing in-house hardware and AI vertical integration.
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Navra, the new company of SoFi and Figure co-founder Mike Cagney, raised a $19 million Series A led by Ribbit for a self-custody front end to on-chain yield. Whether banks take it white-label will test if it is a neutral gateway or a sales channel for Figure, which Cagney chairs.
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The AI data centre company wants $35 billion from public markets on a first half where direct costs exceeded revenue, a $1 billion net loss and a contracted-demand total of $103.4 billion. Underwriters have yet to set a range.
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Solana holds 12% of tokenized-asset market value but handled 32% of the dollars traded in the year to August 18, at a median trade size of $29. Michael Weisz's job in New York is to turn that into loan demand.
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The floor on Figure's compute commitment is about twice all the equity it has disclosed raising, and the vendor writing that contract now owns a piece of the customer owing it. Whether the $3.5bn is take-or-pay is undisclosed.
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The contract value is public and the size of Nscale's stake in Figure is not, which leaves anyone reading a $51bn backlog ahead of a US listing unable to tell how much of that line the seller helped pay for.
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Figure is buying compute the way a frontier lab buys it. The announcements skip the numbers that matter most: how much of the ceiling the initial money covers, and how many megawatts Barstow will draw.
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The Verge's tally from five days in the National Speed Skating Oval is worth more to anyone buying a humanoid than an edited demo reel, because it shows the spread of outcomes instead of the best take.
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Four ex-DeepMind engineers say robotics pilots stall on deployment rather than capability, and their answer moves the retraining work onto the buyer's payroll, which changes what an automation vendor has to prove.
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Xpeng's robotics unit took in more than $900 million at a $6.3 billion post-money valuation, one of eight Chinese carmakers now building humanoids, while the nearest thing to a dated job on a real factory floor belongs to Hyundai.
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Forge counts seven of twenty VC-backed debuts trading above their IPO price. Figma, up 250% on day one, is 84.3% below its first-day close.
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OpenMind's readiness index prices the counterfactual at $85,000 a unit. An FCC rule barring foreign-made robots from US authorization turns that arithmetic into a budget line.
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Index pays crowd contributors for first-person household video. Figure's own figures put contributor spend near $3.75m a month, and they do not reconcile into an hourly wage.
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The July 28 Covered List addition blocks new authorizations for foreign-made robots. The cost multiplier now being quoted comes from an index that had not yet been published.
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