TL;DRBezos’s Prometheus raised $12B at a $41B valuation from JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and BlackRock. It builds AI for engineering physical products with 150 employees.
Prometheus, the AI startup co-led by Jeff Bezos, has raised $12 billion in a funding round that values the company at $41 billion. Investors include JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, DST Global, and Arch Venture Partners, alongside Bezos himself. Total funding now exceeds $18 billion.
The company is building what Bezos calls an “artificial general engineer,” AI tools designed to accelerate the process from design to manufacturing for physical products. Target industries include computing, aerospace, automotive, advanced manufacturing, and drug discovery. Prometheus currently has about 150 employees.
Bezos co-leads the company with Vik Bajaj, a Stanford medical school professor who previously co-founded Alphabet’s Verily health research lab. Bezos started as a founding investor in late 2024 but became so involved he took an operational role. “I became so impressed by what was happening and the potential that I decided I couldn’t sit on the sidelines and I needed to jump in with both feet,” he told CNBC.
This is Bezos’s first operational role in a technology company since stepping down as Amazon CEO in 2021. Prometheus launched in November 2025 with $6.2 billion in initial funding. The earlier reporting valued the round at $38 billion. The final close came in at $41 billion, a 7.9% markup from the figure reported in April.
