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Mogen Cheng

Mogen Cheng is the co-founder and CPO of Mecka AI, a robotics and physical AI company based in New York. Mogen Cheng co-founded Mecka AI with Josh Gao, Jason Chong and Duy Nguyen. 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.

Co-founder/CPO of Mecka AI.

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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/CPO
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, Duy Nguyen

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.

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