Covariant
Company

Last deal

$75M

Amount

Series C

Stage

04.04.2023

Date

3

all rounds

$231.5M

Total amount

date founded

Financing round

General

About Company
Covariant is an AI Robotics company developing a universal AI that enables robots to see, reason, and act on the world around them.

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Also Known As

Embodied Intelligence

founded date

01.01.2017

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Series C

IPO status

Private

Description

The company is building the Covariant Brain, an AI-based software that engages in deep imitation learning, deep reinforcement learning, and meta-learning, enabling users to program robots by simply guiding them through a task using a VR headset. Covariant's mission is to bring AI from research in the lab to real-world operations, and they believe that success requires a diverse team with ambitious expectations, love of learning, empathy, and a team-first mindset.
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Embodied Intelligence Inc.
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4
Tianhao Zhang
Tianhao Zhang

Tianhao Zhang

Tianhao Zhang is the Co-Founder of Covariant.

current job

Covariant
Covariant

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1

Tianhao Zhang

Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel joined covariant.ai as Co-Founder, President, Chief Scientist in 2017. Pieter Abbeel is Professor at UC Berkeley [2008- ], Co-Founder covariant.ai [2017- ], Co-Founder Gradescope [2014- ], Research Scientist at OpenAI [2016-2017], Founding Faculty Partner AI@TheHouse, Advisor to many AI/Robotics start-ups. He works in machine learning and robotics, in particular his research focuses on making robots learn from people (apprenticeship learning), how to make robots learn through their own trial and error (reinforcement learning), and how to speed up skill acquisition through learning-to-learn (meta-learning). His robots have learned advanced helicopter aerobatics, knot-tying, basic assembly, organizing laundry, locomotion, and vision-based robotic manipulation. He has won numerous awards, including best paper awards at ICML, NIPS and ICRA, early career awards from NSF, Darpa, ONR, AFOSR, Sloan, TR35, IEEE, and the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Pieter's work is frequently featured in the popular press, including New York Times, BBC, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Wired, Forbes, Tech Review, NPR.

current job

AIX Ventures

count Of Investments

10

Pieter Abbeel

Rocky Duan
Rocky Duan

Rocky Duan

Rocky Duan is the Co-Founder and CTO at Covariant.

current job

Covariant
Covariant

organization founded

1

Rocky Duan

Peter Chen
Peter Chen

Peter Chen

Peter Chen is the Co-Founder and CEO at Covariant.

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Covariant
Covariant

organization founded

1

Peter Chen

Employee Profiles
13
Peter Shulgin

Peter Shulgin

Solutions, Technical Account Management

Sam Test Cauthen

Sam Test Cauthen

Head of People

Ally Lynch

Ally Lynch

Head of Marketing

Raghavendra Prabhu

Raghavendra Prabhu

Head of Engineering and Research

Jay Thomason

Senior software engineer

David Tse

Business development

Justin Alvey

Justin Alvey

Head of Hardware Development

Pieter Abbeel

Pieter Abbeel

Founder, President, Chief Scientist

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