Pieter Abbeel(Belgium · ♂)— A Berkeley robotics professor and former OpenAI researcher who co-founded Covariant in 2017 to bring deep reinforcement learning to real-world warehouse robots.
Peter Chen(China · ♂)— Abbeel's Berkeley PhD student and OpenAI researcher, he became Covariant's CEO to commercialize robot-learning software.
Rocky Duan(China · ♂)— A Berkeley PhD student under Abbeel and OpenAI researcher, he co-founded Covariant as CTO to build its robotics AI.
Tianhao Zhang(China · ♂)— A Berkeley researcher who co-founded Covariant in 2017 to apply machine learning to industrial robotic manipulation.
Funding history
Date
Round
Amount
Apr 2023
Funding round
US warehouse-robotics company Covariant raised $75M co-led by Radical Ventures and Index Ventures.
$75M
Investors
Tap an investor to see what else they have backed.