Foxglove raises $16 million to build robot dev infrastructure •
Summary
foxglove, a startup building a robotics infrastructure stack, announced today that it has raised $16 million in a Series A funding round led by Eclipse with participation from Amplify Partners and angel investors including Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt. The proceeds bring Foxgloves total amount raised to $18.7 million, which CEO Adrian Macneil says will primarily be spent on product development and expanding the companys product engineering and sales teams.Macneil previously led infrastructure at Cruise, the self-driving car company backed by GM (hence Vogts involvement), and was Coinbases first technical director. After rewriting most of the code, adding support for various robotics frameworks, and creating additional data logging and management tools, Macneil and Foxgloves second co-founder Roman Shtylman (also a Cruise and Coinbase veteran) launched ), both the company and the platform formally.Its incredibly inefficient and redundant for all robotics companies to build nearly identical in-house tools, Macneil told todaybusinessupdates.com via email. Since then, weve had some big names in the industry, like Anduril, adopting and contributing to this open source project.Recently, Foxglove released a rewritten 3D visualizer, which comes with features such as a viewer that allows users to combine camera images and 3D models in the same scene. Completely remote with 19 employees in four countries, the company has more than 3,000 users on its cloud-based tools and enterprise customers, including Nvidia and 6 River Systems.
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