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Foley & Lardner LLP recently represented Samsung Ventures as an investor in the $300 million funding round for Walden Robotics, a full-stack Physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots that continuously learn and improve while performing real work.
The round, which values the company at $1.1 billion, included participation from Toyota (Toyota Motor Corp, Toyota Invention Partners, and Toyota Ventures) and Deviation Capital, with additional investors NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Prologis Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures, and financial partners Calibrate Ventures, Colle Capital, Shine Capital, NextView Ventures, Squarepoint Capital, One Madison Group, KAS Venture Partners, and Menlo Ventures, among others.
Walden Robotics is a full-stack Physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots that put human ingenuity to work at industrial scale. Their robots continuously learn and improve while performing real work, today. Founded in 2026 by pioneers in robotics and AI from Toyota Research Institute, MIT, Stanford, and Amazon, Walden combines Large Behavior Models with real-world operation and its own expert teams to bring capable robots to industry today.
The Foley team was led by partners Louis Lehot and Lyman Thai and included associates Wesley Choi, Rachel Horewitz, and Callie Ericksen.
