Dream Labs, a San Francisco startup building the brain for everyday robots, has raised $90 million in seed funding. B Capital and Kindred Ventures led the round, with participation from A.Capital, Unusual Ventures, SV Angel, Wing VC, Scribble VC, and Adrian Aoun. The company, founded in 2026 by former NVIDIA robotics researchers, also launched Dream API. It turns a robot's camera feed and a plain-English instruction into motor commands, including for robots it has never seen. Its Dream-1 model learns from video of people doing everyday tasks, so skills transfer across hardware. It currently handles tabletop tasks such as folding laundry, and works with more than 20 hardware partners. Dream Labs will spend the money mainly on compute to expand the tasks and robots Dream-1 supports.

Labelbox, a San Francisco AI platform, has raised more than $100 million in Series E financing, including equity and a credit facility. Infinitum Partners led the round, with Wipro Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, B Capital, Tau Ventures, Snowpoint Ventures, and others taking part. The company serves more than 400 customers, including over 90% of leading US AI labs. It reached profitability in 2026 while growing more than fivefold year over year. The money will fund research and engineering on two products, and help expand the teams that bring them to customers. Horizon provides reinforcement learning environments and evaluation tools for frontier AI labs. Recursion Managed Agents lets enterprises deploy AI agents that improve with each run. Labelbox opened Recursion Managed Agents to enterprise customers earlier this month.

San Francisco-based AI audio startup Sonilo has raised $11 million in a funding round led by B Capital, with participation from Redpoint. The company was founded by former TikTok employees, including CEO Shawn Song, who led multimodal AI work at TikTok, CTO Alex Yin, and COO Keli Li, who ran TikTok's global music operation. Sonilo has developed what it calls the Sound World Model, which analyses video content frame by frame to generate matching music and sound effects. The technology reads scene movement and emotional shifts to produce synchronised audio for commercial use. The startup targets short-form video creators, developer platforms, and production teams. It has partnered with Shutterstock for music licensing and signed TapNow and ComfyUI as distribution partners. The company plans to launch its consumer app in the fourth quarter.