Image created with gemini-2.5-flash-image with claude-sonnet-4-5-20250929. Image prompt: A sleek humanoid robot stands in a mahogany witness box inside a grand English courtroom with stone walls and tall Gothic windows, one hand raised in oath-taking gesture, the other resting on a leather law book, diffused natural light casting long shadows across polished wooden floors, painted in the style of a classical courtroom portrait with rich, regal tones.

Today we’re announcing a first-of-its-kind partnership with Brookfield Brookfield is one of the world’s largest asset managers with over $1 trillion of assets and 100,000 residential units This deal provides access to real-world environments and compute needed to scale Helix https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1968299339278848127

Big news: Figure has exceeded $1B in funding at a $39B post-money valuation https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1967937116220080178

Figure has secured over $1B in Series C funding at a $39B valuation, led by Parkway Venture Capital, with significant investments from Brookfield Asset Management, NVIDIA Corporation, Macquarie Capital, Intel Capital, Align Ventures, Tamarack Global, LG Technology Ventures, https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967958051480277085

Figure is aiming to develop the world’s largest and most diverse real-world humanoid pretraining dataset. For this purpose, they’re partnering with Brookfield, a global asset manager overseeing $1 trillion in assets, including 100,000 residential units, 500M square feet of https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1968374209710800961

Figure is now valued at $39B. The previous round was at $2.6B in February 2024. That’s a 15x jump in a year and a half. There are 255 companies in the S&P 500 valued lower than Figure. https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967969998410014939

Having invested in over 1,200 startups over 20+ years at @FJLabs , we use a simple investment heuristic that has served us well: if a founder makes us money and starts another company, we invest even if it is not a marketplace. FJ Labs first seeded founder @adcock_brett when he”” / X https://x.com/Jeffreyw5000/status/1968039725823844596

Accelerating Commercial Deployment of Humanoid Robots We’re excited to be exploring commercial deployment of humanoid robots in new sectors and applications Brookfield’s large operating portfolio, allows Figure to access new and diverse commercial deployment opportunities”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1968299387320443106

I have a badass crew of investors who’ve backed me every step of the way in building my companies FJ Labs – known for their focus on marketplace investing – backed me at my last software company and again at both Archer and Figure Good 101 from Jeff:”” / X https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/1968111824206962690

Looks like the logistics are sorted for ‘3 big announcements’ from Figure.”” / X https://x.com/TheHumanoidHub/status/1967820652653781418

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