Kalea Ventures
1 Queen Caroline Street, London, W6 9YN, United Kingdom
Overview
Kalea Ventures empowers disruptive innovators who are altering industries and reimagining the future through cutting-edge AI investments and strategic partnerships.
- Total investments
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Investment portfolio
- Persona AI
Participated · Seed · May 2025
Persona AI develops bipedal humanoid robots designed to perform welding and other skilled trades in heavy manufacturing, with an initial focus on shipbuilding. The company has iterated three hardware generations in 24 months, performed its first untethered weld in a Houston shop, and demonstrated outdoor walking in protective materials. Persona AI has units already at HD Hyundai and plans prototype delivery by the end of 2026 with commercialization in 2027. It plans to offer robots via a robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) model to reduce customer capital expenditure and enable large-scale fleet deployments. The founding team includes veterans from NASA and prior humanoid efforts, and the company targets markets with acute labor shortages and repetitive, high-value welding work.
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