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

Foxglove, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2021, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round led by Bessemer Venture Partners, bringing its total funding to over $58 million. The company develops a data and observability platform designed to help robotics developers collect, analyze, and visualize sensor data from robots to improve reliability and efficiency. Foxglove’s tools have been adopted by notable customers such as Shield AI, which integrated Foxglove’s platform into its HiveMind autonomy stack, and Dexterity, a logistics robotics firm that reported a 20% reduction in development time and $150,000 annual savings after switching from in-house tools to Foxglove’s platform. Foxglove’s co-founders, Adrian Macneil and Roman Shtylman, aim to provide robotics companies with the kind of sophisticated in-house data infrastructure typically found at large tech firms like Tesla and Waymo. Macneil likens Foxglove’s mission to the early