Tutor Intelligence, a Watertown, Massachusetts robotics startup that grew out of MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence lab, has raised a $75 million Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz, bringing its total funding to $117 million, according to The Next Web, which reported the round on November 2, 2026.

The round

  • The Next Web reports that Union Square Ventures, which led the Series A, and Neo, which led the seed round, are earlier investors. Subtracting the new round from the $117 million total implies about $42 million raised before it.
  • The company did not disclose its valuation or revenue, according to The Next Web.
  • Crunchbase News listed the round as tied for 10th among the largest funding rounds of the week, in its round-up of November 6.
  • The Next Web says the money will go toward training the company’s robot foundation model and scaling manufacturing and deployment.

How the company works

According to The Next Web, Tutor’s networked robots, named Sonny and Cassie, handle products such as cereal, candy, cosmetics and toys in factories and warehouses. Remote operators, whom the company calls “tutors,” guide the robots, and each completed task generates data that improves the company’s models. Customers do not buy the robots: they pay for completed work, billed per hour or per item picked, with no upfront payment or long-term contract, and Tutor handles setup, maintenance and software updates.

Customers and plans

The company named no customers, saying only that its robots work for some of the largest U.S. manufacturing and logistics networks, according to The Next Web. Its deployments grew to nearly four times the prior year’s facility count, nearly a third of last year’s new customers were existing clients expanding, and the company expects more than 1,000 robots under contract by the end of 2027, all built in the U.S. It has not said how many robots it currently runs.

What was said

Co-founder and CEO Josh Gruenstein is quoted as saying: “We can hardly build robots fast enough.” Raghu Raghuram, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, is also quoted in the article.

Sources and notes

This post is based on The Next Web’s article by Cristian Dina, published November 2, 2026, and Crunchbase News’ round-up of November 6. Lens did not read a Tutor Intelligence press release and did not contact the company or its investors. The 2027 target and growth figures are the company’s claims as reported.

Image: Industrial robot arms stacking crates of packaged bread in a bakery warehouse, by KUKA Roboter GmbH via Wikimedia Commons, released into the public domain; cropped. Stand-in photo; it does not show Tutor Intelligence’s robots or the events described.