Founders / Duy Nguyen
Duy Nguyen
Duy Nguyen is the co-founder and COO of Mecka AI, a robotics and physical AI company based in New York. Duy Nguyen co-founded Mecka AI with Josh Gao, Jason Chong and Mogen Cheng. Mecka AI had raised US$120M across 3 rounds as of November 2026, most recently a US$60M Series B in October 2026 led by Sequoia Capital. The Canadian AI Newsletter last covered Mecka AI in October 2026.
Duy Nguyen is a co-founder and the COO of Mecka AI, which collects human motion data with body sensors and iPhones to train robots. Before co-founding Mecka, Nguyen resold sneakers, according to Fortune.
Co-founder/COO of Mecka AI.
Mecka AI
Training data for robots built from human demonstrations: captures first-person human motion with body sensors and iPhones, and sells datasets (Egoverse), task-specific data collection and model evaluation to robotics labs and frontier model teams.
- Role
- Co-founder/COO
- HQ
- New York, NY, US
- Founded
- 2024
- Status
- Active
- Disclosed raised
- US$120M
- Latest round
- Series B, Oct 7, 2026
- Website
- mecka.ai
Co-founders: Josh Gao, Jason Chong, Mogen Cheng
Investors: Sequoia Capital, Framework Ventures, NVentures (Nvidia), M12, Qualcomm Ventures, Samsung, Kindred Ventures, Neo, and 6 more
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Data as of November 10, 2026.