Enigma

Summary active Updated Jul 28, 2026

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Location Israel / California
Founded 2025
Latest Stage Seed
Total Raised $71M

Investors

Scott Sandell ~2019 (2019)
Wences Casares Pre-Seed (2021)
Sarah Guo 2026-07-27 (2026)
Index Ventures seed (2026)
Ribbit Capital seed (2026)
Conviction seed (2026)
independent Pre-Seed (2021)

Founders

Jonathan Jacobi Co-Founder
Gal Niv Co-Founder

About

Enigma is a physical AI company building foundation models and intuitive interfaces to make robots easier to control and deploy across hardware 12. The company emerged from stealth on 2026-07-27 with a $71 million seed round co-led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Conviction Partners and angel investors including leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI, Cognition, and Wiz 123. Founded less than a year prior by Jonathan Jacobi and Gal Niv, Enigma operates robot hangars in Israel and California and launched robots.online as the first public interactive AI robotics experience, where users can remotely control robots to perform tasks like drawing, sword fighting, and chemistry experiments 123. The company already partners with organizations in healthcare, logistics, and entertainment 1.

Disclaimer: This is a lean profile built from initial round coverage and may be expanded as more information becomes available.

Funding History

Date Round Amount Lead Co-investors
2026-07-27 Seed $71M Index Ventures, Ribbit Capital Conviction Partners 123

What Investors Say

No independently sourced investor commentary quoted at press time.

What Founders Say

“We want to make human-robot interactions completely effortless — as intuitive as adjusting a car’s volume knob.”

— Jonathan Jacobi, Co-Founder of Enigma, on the seed round 1.

Sources


  1. “Enigma raises $71M to make controlling a robot as easy as adjusting the volume,” TechCrunch, July 27, 2026. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/27/enigma-raises-70m-to-make-controlling-a-robot-as-easy-as-adjusting-the-volume/ — Article body confirms $71M seed (headline URL uses “70m” but text specifies $71 million); names Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital as co-leads with Conviction Partners participating. 

  2. “Enigma Raises $71 Million Seed Round and Puts the World’s First Interactive AI Robots Online,” Yahoo Finance / Newswire, July 27, 2026. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/enigma-raises-71-million-seed-130500942.html

  3. “Enigma Emerges From Stealth With $71 Million Seed Round to Build AI Foundation Models for Robotics,” citybiz, July 27, 2026. Accessed July 28, 2026. https://www.citybiz.co/article/879604/enigma-emerges-from-stealth-with-71-million-seed-round-to-build-ai-foundation-models-for-robotics/