Redwood City, CA - Sep 16, 2025 (UTC) - Dyna Robotics has closed a $120 million Series A funding round, led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, and LG Technology Ventures. The new capital will be used to expand the company’s research and engineering team and accelerate the development of its next-generation foundation model as it works to deliver high performance general-purpose robots in commercial environments.
The funding builds on Dyna’s rapid progress since raising a $23.5 million seed round in March 2025. In its first year, the company released its breakthrough DYNA-1 foundation model, achieved a 99+% success rate in 24-hour non-stop operation, and proved commercial viability through customer deployments across hotels, restaurants, laundromats, and gyms.
Dyna is the first to build a single-weight, general-purpose foundation model that can perform diverse daily tasks at commercial scale across varied environments. After just six months, Dyna’s robots were running sixteen hours a day at multiple customer sites, supporting the model’s generalization and commercial viability while continuing to learn and improve rapidly from on-the-job experience.
“A strong foundation model is key to scalable distribution,” said Lindon Gao, co-founder and CEO of Dyna Robotics. “Our models continuously improve with each customer deployment, generating high-quality data. We are observing true generalization as our robot enters new environments; it simply works out of the box, with no additional data.”
“Our first principle is to design robot foundation models that attain both generalization and performance,” said co-founder Jason Ma, a former DeepMind research scientist who has focused his career on developing foundation models for robotics. “Scalable real-world robot learning systems need to master and generalize many manipulation skills. To achieve the best performance on complex tasks, Dyna’s foundation models are developed to enable general world understanding while learning from the models’ own experience for rapid online learning.”
“Right now, three forces are colliding at once: AI breakthroughs are maturing, hardware is accelerating, and the demand for labor has never been higher. That convergence has created a once-in-a-generation opportunity,” said co-founder York Yang. “Dyna has made rapid progress over 12 months and we believe our ultimate goal, achieving physical AGI, is not far off.”
The founding team brings together proven entrepreneurial success and deep technical expertise. Co-founders Lindon Gao and York Yang previously built Caper AI, which combined software and hardware to bring AI-powered smart carts to retailers worldwide and exited in 2021 for $350 million. They teamed up with Jason Ma, a former DeepMind research scientist, to advance AI through real-world applications by building embodied AI robots that are useful for businesses now while using that “on-the-job” experience to build toward physical AGI.
“Dyna’s team and mission bridges research excellence and real world commercial applications. The demand for robotic automation spans almost every industry, and we believe Dyna will be at the forefront in meeting it with their state of the art general-purpose robot foundation model,” said Andrew Kang, CEO of RoboStrategy. “We’re thrilled to co-lead this Series A and support the team’s ambitious roadmap of driving mass adoption of general-purpose robots.”
“Dyna Robotics is at the forefront of embodied AI, delivering foundation models that combine generalization and commercial-level performance,” said Max Gazor, General Partner at CRV. “We invested in the company from day one and are excited to double down on leading Dyna’s Series A. Lindon, York, and Jason bring together the rare combination of proven entrepreneurial success, deep technical expertise, and the operational know-how to scale AI in the real world.”
“At First Round, we back exceptional founders tackling massive problems, and Dyna Robotics checks every box. Their early results are remarkable. In just one year, Dyna has pushed the boundaries of embodied AI with unprecedented generalization and commercial-grade performance,” said Bill Trenchard, Partner at First Round Capital. “We’re thrilled to lead their Seed and Series A to fuel Lindon, York, and Jason’s vision to power the future of the physical economy.”
About Dyna Robotics
Dyna Robotics makes general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model that generalizes and self-improves across varied environments with commercial-grade performance. Dyna’s robots have been deployed at customers across multiple industries. Dyna Robotics was founded by repeat founders Lindon Gao and York Yang, who sold Caper AI for $350 million, and former DeepMind research scientist Jason Ma. The company is backed by top investors, including CRV and First Round Capital.
