the @MeckaAI nyc office mural being painted

@MeckaAI raised $60M to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI.

1/ Today in @FortuneMagazine: Framework Ventures has raised $400 Million for our 4th fund, FVIV. We believe the future is being built at the intersection of blockchain, AI, robotics, energy, and fintech. 🧵👇

We hold an extremely high bar across the team - hands-on engineering, diving into petabytes of data daily Join us to accelerate this reality mecka.ai/

LFG! One of the highest integrity players in the space

Mecka was extremely early in seeing with immense clarity and conviction the future of physical AI data. They took a big nonobvious bet on scaling egocentric data with one of the sharpest technical and operational teams I’ve seen in the space. Congrats @MeckaAI!

Congratulations to @MeckaAI on the $60M fundraise, which Framework led This is the fastest growing revenue company I've ever seen, and the team works incredibly hard to make it happen. Well deserved!

Wouldn’t be where we are without Vance and the incredible team @hiFramework

We’ve been building quietly for well over the last year… excited to announce our $60M round to shape the future of general purpose robotics and real world deployments! Join us mecka.ai/careers

1/ Today in @FortuneMagazine: Framework Ventures has led a $60 million raise for @MeckaAI, a robotics infra company building the data & deployment layer for physical AI. Story by @bdanweiss. Full 🧵👇

Today @MeckaAI is announcing $60M in funding to become the data and deployment layer for physical AI This raise will allow us to scale our data infrastructure, invest into new verticals, and deploy robots into the real world

mecka is hiring, fast

130 entries in our @vclubpoker x Day by Day Ventures poker tournament last night for @TOtechweek 🔥 Founders, investors and operators battled it out on the felt, but only one could come out on top. Congrats to Nima Razavi for taking home the trophy and top prize of $3K! Shoutout @markgrinev, Hussain and Jonathan for the partnership on this event and making it one to remember. The night was sponsored by @pokerosapp, with the fun twist of players being allowed to use PokerOS at the tables when not in a hand.

It is time to create a mecka

You have no experience. You’ve never started a company. You’ve never had a full time job. Nike is going to kill you. You’re a kid. You don’t have technical skills. You shouldn’t build hardware. Apple is going to kill you. You can’t build hardware. You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively. Athletes don’t care about recovery. Under Armour is going to kill you. It won’t be accurate. You don’t listen. You’re an ineffective leader. You can’t recruit great talent. You’re going to have to pay every athlete. You can’t measure sleep non-invasively. It’s too expensive to research. Athletes are a small market. The product costs too much to make. The product costs too much to sell. Your valuation is too high. Consumers aren’t going to want it. Hardware is too hard. You should measure steps. Fitbit is going to kill you. You can’t build a marketing engine. You can’t raise enough money. You need a real CEO. Google is going to kill you. You can’t be a subscription. You can’t build a brand. You can’t do consumer in Boston. Your valuation is too high. You shouldn’t make accessories. You shouldn’t make apparel. Lululemon is going to kill you. You can’t predict Covid. Stay in your niche. You are going to run out of money. You can’t build a health platform. Amazon is going to kill you. You can’t measure blood pressure. You can’t get medical approvals. The market is too small. You don’t understand AI. The market is too competitive. It won’t work internationally. The supply chain is too complicated. You can’t build an AI. You can’t raise enough money. It’s too competitive. Healthcare isn’t going to want it. … Just keep going ✌️

@MeckaAI (@joshavata , Jason Chong, and team) has been instrumental to the creation of EgoVerse. The team built core infrastructure, including the data browser and capture app, and contributed a major share of the dataset. Excited to keep building together!

Thank you to academic partners from GaTech, Stanford, UCSD, ETH, and partners from @scale_AI, and @AIatMeta Explore at partners.mecka.ai/egoverse EgoVerse Site: egoverse.ai Code: github.com/gatech-rl2/egover…

You can use these tools both privately or open-source by contributing datasets in one-click to EgoVerse The full-stack ecosystem: - Cloud infra for storage and access - Mobile and Web Apps for capturing and querying data - Algos for human-to-robot transfer and deployment