Encord: The data layer behind the world's leading physical AI systems

Encord is an AI-native data infrastructure platform for Physical AI, used by enterprises building robotics, autonomous vehicles, humanoid robots, drones, ADAS, and warehouse automation systems.

The platform enables teams to curate, manage, annotate, and evaluate the multimodal data, video, 3D point clouds, sensor streams, telemetry required to train and deploy real-world AI models.

Encord supports the full data lifecycle for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, foundation models, and embodied AI, positioning itself as the universal data layer for production-grade Physical AI.

Founded in 2020, headquartered in London with a San Francisco office. $110M total funding through Series C led by Wellington Management (February 2026), with backing from Y Combinator, CRV, Next47, Crane Venture Partners, Wellington Management, Bright Pixel Capital, and Isomer Capital.