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funding is the sole category represented across all 2 tracked stories. Spark Capital is most often covered alongside 8VC, which appears in 2 of these 2 stories. Each carries 2 original sources on average. We currently track 2 Cross-Sector stories that mention Spark Capital, all published on September 5, 2026.
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funding is the sole category represented across all 2 tracked stories. Spark Capital is most often covered alongside 8VC, which appears in 2 of these 2 stories. Each carries 2 original sources on average. We currently track 2 Cross-Sector stories that mention Spark Capital, all published on September 5, 2026.
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Series B talks reported
TechCrunch reports XDOF is in late-stage talks for a Series B at about $1.2 billion led by 8VC, with terms not final.
Stealth exit and $70M Series A
XDOF emerges from stealth; TechCrunch reports a $70M Series A with Thrive Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Lux Capital, and Spark Capital.
XDOF founded
Philipp Wu and Fred Shentu, UC Berkeley researchers, co-found XDOF to build teleoperation data infrastructure for robotics.
Three months after emerging from stealth and a $70 million Series A, Berkeley-founded XDOF is in late-stage Series B talks at a ~$1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC. With annualized revenue nearing $50 million, the round shows how quickly venture capital is repricing the robotics data layer.
Physical robots have no internet-scale training corpus, and XDOF is building the fix: teleoperation data pipelines and annotation systems for general-purpose robots. Its GELLO-derived approach is fueling ~$50 million annualized revenue and a ~$1.2 billion Series B round.
Source: TechCrunch · Marina Temkin (us)
