Foxglove raises $40M to scale its data platform for roboticists

Foxglove, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2021 by former Cruise engineers Adrian Macneil and Roman Shtylman, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round, bringing its total funding to over $58 million. The company develops a data and observability platform designed to help robotics companies collect, analyze, and visualize sensor data from their robots, aiming to accelerate development and improve robot reliability. Foxglove’s platform provides robotics startups with infrastructure similar to that used internally by industry leaders like Waymo and Tesla, but without requiring large engineering teams. Its customers include Amazon, NVIDIA, Shield AI, and Dexterity, among others. Foxglove’s tools have demonstrated significant impact, such as helping Dexterity reduce tooling and development time by over 20%, saving $150,000 annually. Notably, Shield AI integrated Foxglove’s platform into its HiveMind autonomy stack, embedding it as part of its software development kit, highlighting Foxglove’s role