Mecka AI Raises $60 Million From Sequoia, and Its $300 Million Revenue Target Is Its Own

Mecka AI, a two-year-old startup that pays people to film themselves doing chores and trade work so robots can learn from the footage, raised a $60 million Series B led by Sequoia Capital, BetaKit reported on Oct. 7. The round is announced, and the company has disclosed neither a post-money valuation nor how much of it has been wired.

TechCrunch, which wrote in September that the round would value Mecka at about $500 million, did not confirm that figure in its own Oct. 7 story. Treat $500 million as a number in circulation, not a fact.

What Mecka sells and who put money in

Mecka captures first-person video with iPhones and body sensors from people working in home kitchens, chemistry labs, metal fabrication shops and leather shops, then turns it into training data for robots, BetaKit said. TechCrunch described the aim as doing for robotics what Scale AI, Mercor and Surge did for chatbot training data.

Sequoia led. Nvidia, Microsoft's venture fund M12, Qualcomm's venture arm and Samsung are new, according to BetaKit. Kindred Ventures, Framework Ventures and Neo return. Individuals in the round include DoorDash chief executive Tony Xu, former ServiceNow and Snowflake chief executive Frank Slootman and Milan Kovac, who previously headed Tesla's Optimus humanoid programme.

The revenue figures are Mecka's, and one is a forecast

Mecka says it passed a $100 million annualized run-rate in June and expects $300 million by the end of 2026, per BetaKit. Run-rate multiplies a recent period's revenue by a year, so a few large data deliveries can inflate it. The $300 million is a projection three months out.

If the $500 million valuation holds, it equals five times the June run-rate and about 1.7 times the year-end target. Neither multiple can be checked, because the valuation is unconfirmed and no filing or customer has verified the revenue.

1. June 2026 (passed)100 $ million
2. End of 2026 (projected)300 $ million

Source: BetaKit, Oct. 7, 2026 (June figure reported as passed; year-end figure is a company projection)

Funding history

Round	Amount	Timing
Series A	$25 million	November 2025
Series A extension	$35 million	Summer 2026
Series B	$60 million	Announced Oct. 7, 2026

The extension was led by Framework, Menlo Ventures and SV Angel, BetaKit said. The Series B alone equals the whole Series A, which makes at least $120 million raised across the two. Mecka also bought Docula, a small bootstrapped Vancouver startup, earlier in 2026.

What is missing

Mecka sells to what BetaKit calls multiple frontier robotics labs and Big Tech firms and names none of them. TechCrunch's story carried no revenue, customer, headcount or worker-pay figure, so the people filming the footage are the least documented part of the business.

Competition is forming. TechCrunch reported that XDOF was in talks for a Series B at a $1.2 billion valuation and that Scale AI and Micro1 are expanding into robotics data. Compare how Helm.ai's $70 million in signed contracts rests on one named customer, and how AWS's open-source Physical AI Toolchain prices fine-tuning a robot model at $79 while leaving edge deployment marked planned. Data suppliers sit upstream of both.

Mecka says the money goes to data infrastructure, its internal research lab and a commercial robot deployment layer. The first outside check will be a customer or an investor putting a name to the $100 million run-rate.