# Mike Xia

> Mike Xia is the founder and CEO of Anvil Robotics, a San Francisco startup building open-source, composable robot devkits for the Physical AI era. After scaling an AI camera company to $5M ARR and helping grow cloud-compute platform Voltage Park to hundreds of millions in revenue, he teamed up with CTO Vijay Pradeep - whom he met as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Matter Venture Partners - to attack a problem they heard from 50+ teams: it took months and up to six figures just to assemble a robot before any AI training could begin. Anvil sells ready-to-go OpenARM and OpenYAM kits manufactured in Taiwan, has shipped 100+ robots to customers like NVIDIA, Figure AI, Path Robotics, Google, Stanford and CMU, and raised a $6.5M seed led by Matter Venture Partners and Humba Ventures.

- **Role:** Founder & CEO at Anvil Robotics
- **Organizations:** Anvil Robotics, Voltage Park, Lumina, Matter Venture Partners, Menlo Research, Civitai
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- **Known for:** Founded and leads Anvil Robotics, a Physical AI hardware/software platform, Raised $6.5M total (including a $5.5M seed in April 2026), Shipped 100+ robots to customers including NVIDIA, Figure AI, Path Robotics, Google, Stanford and CMU

## Career timeline

- **earlier** — Studied at MIT
- **earlier** — Built Lumina, an AI camera brand, scaling it to $5M in annual recurring revenue
- **earlier** — Served as Chief Product Officer at Voltage Park, a cloud-compute platform that grew to hundreds of millions in revenue
- **2025** — Entrepreneur-in-residence at Matter Venture Partners, where he met co-founder Vijay Pradeep; spent six months interviewing 50+ companies
- **2025** — Founded Anvil Robotics (July); raised $1M pre-seed from Matter Venture Partners
- **2026** — Closed $6.5M seed round led by Matter Venture Partners and Humba Ventures; shipped 100+ robots

## Achievements

- Founded and leads Anvil Robotics, a Physical AI hardware/software platform
- Raised $6.5M total (including a $5.5M seed in April 2026)
- Shipped 100+ robots to customers including NVIDIA, Figure AI, Path Robotics, Google, Stanford and CMU
- Reached seven-figure revenue with 50+ inbound customers within roughly eight months
- Previously scaled AI camera brand Lumina to $5M ARR
- Helped grow cloud-compute platform Voltage Park to hundreds of millions in revenue
- Open-sourced Anvil's flagship OpenARM dual-arm design (7 DoF per arm)

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Anvil Robotics announced a $6.5M seed round led by Matter Venture Partners and Humba Ventures, with 100+ robots shipped.

## Links

- Website: https://anvil.bot
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiam/
- GitHub: https://github.com/anvil-robotics

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Last updated: 2026-06-22