The vendor is among a group of well-financed startups developing physical AI models.
June 22, 2026
Startup Odyssey has secured a Series B funding round of $310 million.
The Palo Alto-based AI lab is one of a growing number of companies developing world models, which are trained to learn how the physical world works.
The round valued the company at 1.45 billion and was led by Natural Capital, with participation from Amazon, AMD Ventures, the CIA-associated IQT fund and GV (Google Ventures). Other investors included Jeff Dean; Google’s chief scientist, Qasar Younis, founder of autonomous vehicle company Applied Intuition; and Kyle Vogt, who headed up General Motors’ robotaxi subsidiary, Cruise.
