Company
Persona AI
Summary
- Houston, United States
- Founded: 2024
- Stage: Startup
- Use: Civil
- Focus: Hardware-first
Fields
About
Builds industrial humanoid robots that perform welding, inspection, maintenance and fabrication in shipyards, construction sites and energy facilities.
Funding
- Total raised
- $27M
- Newest round
- Pre Seed · $27M7 May 2025
- Led by
- Unity Growth Fund, Tides Ventures, SGH Capital
| Investor | Rounds |
|---|---|
| Unity Growth Fund | Pre SeedLead |
| Tides Ventures | Pre SeedLead |
| SGH Capital | Pre SeedLead |
| Zero Infinity Partners | Pre Seed |
| MiraeAsset Financial Group | Pre Seed |
| Wave Function® | Pre Seed |
| Sound Media Ventures | Pre Seed |
| Olive Hill Ventures | Pre Seed |
| SGA Capital | Pre Seed |
| Tola Capital | Pre Seed |
| Chjango Unchained | Pre Seed |
| Mark LaPenna | Pre Seed |
Aviato · checked 12 Oct 2026
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1Open jobs
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- Staff Robot Platform Engineer
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Sources
2Independent reports2
Persona AI (Houston) announced a $27M oversubscribed pre-seed round and said it had already signed an agreement with HD Hyundai to deploy humanoids into shipyards, with initial delivery expected within 18 months.
therobotreport.com17 May 2025Persona AI deployed a humanoid welding robot at its own Houston facility, sized to fit human welders' physical envelope in confined shipyard spaces; described as prototype/pre-commercial, with commercial testing targeted for 2027.
robotaigeek.com13 Jul 2026
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