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Humanoid robotics company Figure<\/a> raised its largest round of funding yet, a sign of growing investor interest in robots designed to work alongside humans in warehouses, factories, and other settings.<\/p>\n The company, based in San Jose, California, announced<\/a> on Tuesday that it raised a Series C funding round that values it at $39 billion. The round, which \u201cexceeded $1 billion,\u201d said Figure, was led by Parkway Venture Capital with participation from Brookfield Asset Management, Nvidia, and Intel Capital, among others. \u00a0<\/p>\n Figure said the funding will be used to scale the company\u2019s fleet of humanoid robots, build the necessary infrastructure to accelerate robot training, and launch advanced data collection efforts. \u00a0<\/p>\n The company has raised nearly $2 billion in funding since its 2022 founding. <\/p>\n Earlier this year, Figure CEO Brett Adcock claimed that Figure was the most \u201csought-after\u201d stock on the private market. But the company has also been sending cease-and-desist letters to multiple secondary stock market brokers, telling TechCrunch<\/a> in April that it sends such letters when a broker isn\u2019t authorized to sell its shares.\u00a0<\/p>\n TechCrunch has reached out to Figure for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n