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Dream Labs Raises $90M Seed, Then Opens Its Robot Brain to Everyone
B Capital led the round, with Kindred Ventures, A.Capital, Unusual Ventures, SV Angel, Wing VC, Scribble VC and Adrian Aoun among the participants, as the company simultaneously launched Dream API.
Dream Labs, an AI company building the brain for everyday robots, has closed $90M in seed funding, the San Francisco-based company announced. B Capital led the round, with Kindred Ventures joining alongside A.Capital, Unusual Ventures, SV Angel, Wing VC, Scribble VC and Adrian Aoun, among others.
The raise arrives with a product launch attached. Dream Labs introduced Dream API, which it describes as the first publicly available API that turns a robot's camera feed and a plain-English instruction into motor commands — including for robots it has never seen before. That last detail is the one worth pausing on. Most robotics software is written against a known machine, with its specific sensors, joints and tolerances baked in. An API that generalizes across unfamiliar hardware is a different kind of claim, and a far more ambitious one: it treats the robot body as interchangeable and the intelligence as portable.
The framing the company uses — "the brain for everyday robots" — points in the same direction. The pitch is not a single machine but a layer that could sit underneath many of them, which is why the investor list reads the way it does. B Capital anchors the round, Kindred Ventures comes in alongside, and the cap table fills out with A.Capital, Unusual Ventures, SV Angel, Wing VC and Scribble VC, plus angel participation from Aoun.
At $90M, this is a seed round sized like something further along the curve, and it lands in a robotics-AI market where the scarce resource is not enthusiasm but working generalization — systems that hold up when the camera feed is messy and the instruction is casual.
What the company has said publicly is limited to the financing and the API launch. Dream Labs did not disclose how the capital will be allocated, and no valuation was provided. What it has put on the table is a thesis: that the interface between a person's sentence and a robot's movement can be a product, sold to anyone, running on hardware its builders have never touched.
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An AI company building the brain for everyday robots.
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