# Dyna Robotics

> Dyna Robotics is a Redwood City, California startup building embodied-AI foundation models that let robots perform dexterous, real-world manipulation tasks around the clock. Founded in 2024 by repeat entrepreneurs Lindon Gao and York Yang (who sold Caper AI for $350M) and former DeepMind researcher Jason Ma, the company's DYNA-1 model runs commercial deployments in laundries, factories, restaurants and gyms. Dyna raised a $23.5M seed and a $120M Series A in 2025, reaching a valuation above $600M with backing from NVIDIA, Amazon, Salesforce Ventures, Samsung Next and CRV.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founders:** Lindon Gao (Co-founder & CEO), York Yang (Co-founder), Jason Ma (Co-founder (AI/Research, ex-DeepMind))
- **Team size:** ~120 employees
- **Products:** DYNA-1, Dyna Robots (RaaS platform)
- **Notable:** DYNA-1 ran fully autonomously for 24+ hours, folding 900+ napkins at ~99% success rate., Raised $143.5M total in roughly a year across seed and Series A., Reached a valuation above $600M within about a year of founding.

## Products & services

- **DYNA-1** — A production-ready, single-weight robot foundation model for sustained autonomous dexterous manipulation. Demonstrated 99%+ success over 24-hour continuous operation and folds 40+ shirts per hour at human-level quality, self-correcting in real time on multi-step tasks.
- **Dyna Robots (RaaS platform)** — Dual industrial robotic arms on a wheeled base deployed as Robots-as-a-Service. Field teams map a workspace and calibrate in minutes; robots run without task-specific programming across factories, laundries, restaurants and hospitality.

## Achievements

- DYNA-1 ran fully autonomously for 24+ hours, folding 900+ napkins at ~99% success rate.
- Raised $143.5M total in roughly a year across seed and Series A.
- Reached a valuation above $600M within about a year of founding.
- Secured strategic backing from NVIDIA, Amazon, Salesforce, Samsung and LG.
- Deployed commercially across hotels, restaurants, laundromats, gyms and factories.

## Latest updates

- **2025-09** — Closed a $120M Series A led by RoboStrategy, CRV and First Round Capital, reaching a $600M+ valuation on the path to physical AGI.
- **2025-05** — Unveiled DYNA-1, described as the first commercial-ready robot foundation model offering round-the-clock autonomous dexterity.
- **2025-03** — Raised a $23.5M seed round co-led by CRV and First Round Capital.

## Links

- Website: https://www.dyna.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dyna-robotics
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/dynarobotics
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Dyna-Robotics
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/dynarobotics

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