Ropedia
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Founders
About
Ropedia is a Singapore-based data infrastructure company building the training data pipeline for physical AI and robotics 1. The company also maintains an office in Mountain View, California 1. Its flagship product HOMIE is a wearable, head-mounted device that simultaneously records first-person video, audio, depth, hand movements, gaze, body motion and camera position, with each data stream timestamped so developers can correlate perception with movement in real time 2. Ropedia operates a closed-loop pipeline combining data capture, quality assurance, annotation, and dataset preparation for robotics training 1.
Co-founder and CEO Zhaoxi Chen has a background in 3D computer vision and multimodal AI. Co-founder Fangzhou Hong was previously a researcher at Meta working on egocentric multimodal intelligence. Chief Scientist Ziwei Liu is an Associate Professor at Nanyang Technological University 1.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03 | Pre-Series A | $8M | Undisclosed | Undisclosed 3 |
| 2026-07-23 | Pre-Series A extension | $22M | Undisclosed | Angel investors from AI, enterprise tech, robotics, mobility, and infrastructure sectors 12 |
What Investors Say
No independently sourced investor quotes found — the announcement did not name specific investing firms or partners.
What Founders Say
“A robot can’t play baseball by watching a video any more than you could learn to ride a bike by reading about it.” — Zhaoxi Chen, CEO 2
Sources
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TechNode Global, “Singapore’s AI facilitator Ropedia raises $22M pre-Series A for physical AI data infrastructure, $30m in total,” July 24, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://technode.global/2026/07/24/singapores-ai-facilitator-ropedia-raises-22m-pre-series-a-for-physical-ai-data-infrastructure-30m-in-total/↩↩↩↩↩↩
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Tech Startups, “Ropedia raises $30M to build the data infrastructure powering physical AI and robotics,” July 23, 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://techstartups.com/2026/07/23/ropedia-raises-30m-to-build-the-data-infrastructure-powering-physical-ai-and-robotics/↩↩↩↩
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FinSMEs, “Ropedia Raises $30M in Pre-A Funding,” July 2026. Accessed July 2026. https://www.finsmes.com/2026/07/ropedia-raises-30m-in-pre-a-funding.html↩