CarbonSix Raises $4M Seed Funding Led by Top Silicon Valley VCs
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SAN FRANCISCO, May 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- CarbonSix, Inc., a robotics startup specializing in AI-powered manipulation for manufacturing, today announced it has raised USD 4 million in seed funding. Its founding members include Co-CEO Dr. Jehyeok Kim and CTO Dr. Terry Suh, experts in robotics and artificial intelligence, with academic backgrounds from top institutions such as MIT, Yale University, Seoul National University, and KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology).The company has also formed an official advisory board featuring Professor Russ Tedrake of MITs Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Professor Cl\xe9ment Gosselin, a global authority in industrial robotic hand design from Universit\xe9 Laval.CarbonSix focuses on developing robotic intelligence and dexterous manipulators designed to automate the intricate, variable manual tasks that current automation solutions struggle to address. "CarbonSix has an outstanding founding team with proven global exit experience and deep insight into both AI technology and market needs," said Eric Rosenblum, Partner at Foothill Ventures. ""Our primary goal is to automate complex assembly tasks that remain difficult for humanoid robots today, using economically viable and high-performance AI solutions," said Terry Moon, CEO of CarbonSix. Led by SUALAB alumnus Terry Moon and robotics expert Jaehyeok Kim, the team includes engineers from MIT, Yale, SNU, and KAIST.