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Brett Adcock
Brett Adcock is the founder and chief executive of Figure, a US company building general-purpose humanoid robots, which he started in 2022. A serial entrepreneur, he previously co-founded the hiring marketplace Vettery, sold to the Adecco Group, and the electric-aviation firm Archer Aviation, which went public in 2021.
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Figure raises $675M Series B, partners with OpenAI
Investors included Microsoft, Nvidia and Jeff Bezos; OpenAI agreed to develop language and reasoning models specifically for Figure's humanoid robots.
Money & business · Models & capabilities
Figure AI comes out of stealth, raises $70M
Parkway Venture Capital led the round a year after founder Brett Adcock self-financed the company's first $100 million, days before its robot took its first steps.
Money & business