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Give brains to robots

phospho.ai
HQ: San Francisco, CA, USA
1-10
B2B

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 29, 2026

Overview

Phospho is a Paris-based AI robotics company that builds the open-source phosphobot toolkit and related hardware/dev-kit products to give robots a 'brain' for teleoperation, data collection, model training, and real-world deployment. The company previously marketed LLM monitoring/text analytics tools and now positions itself primarily around robotics.

Primary product

phosphobot, an open-source AI robotics toolkit/platform

Founded

2023

Headquarters

Paris, France

Team size

1-10

Industry

Technology, Information and Internet

Sub-industry

AI robotics

Offices

Paris, France
San Francisco, California, United States

Business model

open-source software
SaaS subscription
hardware sales
custom solutions

Funding

Stage

seed

Total raised

$1.8M

Latest round

Seed · Jul 2024

Latest amount

$125K

Seed

Jul 2024

$125K

Pre-Seed

Jan 2024 · Elaia and Y Combinator

$1.7M

People & investors

Leadership

Paul-Louis Venard

CEO

Pierre-Louis Biojout

Co-Founder & CTO

Investors

Abou Laraki
Bertrand Serlet
Elaia Partners
François Dorléans
Julien Chaumond
Mehdi Ghissassi
Nicolas Schul
Sébastien de Lafond
Stanislas Miquel
Vincent Nallatamby
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Engineering-first, action-over-theory, impact-focused, transparent, egoless, and ambitious, with an explicit preference for in-person collaboration.

Product & market

Pricing

Free/open-source tier, €35/month phospho PRO subscription, plus custom/contact-us pricing and hardware sales

Differentiators

  • —Open-source robotics toolkit
  • —End-to-end workflow from data capture to model training and teleoperation
  • —Cross-platform support (macOS, Linux, Windows)
  • —Meta Quest and API-based robot control
  • —Supports low-cost hardware and extension to custom robots/cameras
  • —Combines software, hardware kits, and training/evaluation tooling

Technology

Python
TypeScript
Docker
Hugging Face
LeRobot
Meta Quest
GitHub
Notion
Discord
YouTube

Customers

NVIDIA
Hitachi
rerun.io
comma.ai

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

≈$1.5M est. ARR (public estimate)

Estimated monthly visits

18.7K

contact@phospho.ai

Latest news

A Step-by-Step Guide to Training and Testing the BB-ACT AI Model

phospho blog · Jun 2025

Official guide showing how to train and test BB-ACT, reinforcing phospho's robotics product focus and documenting support for low-cost robot arms and the phosphobot workflow.

Meet BB-ACT, the first robotics action model (VLA) publicly available via API.

LinkedIn · Jun 2025

Founder Pierre-Louis Biojout announced BB-ACT, a 3.1B-parameter robotics action model available via API, describing it as a major product launch for phospho's robotics direction.

phospho: give a brain to your robot

phospho blog · May 2025

Official launch-style post introducing phosphobot as an open-source robotics app for control, teleoperation, dataset recording, and training state-of-the-art action models.

Seed Of The Week: Phospho

French Tech Journal · Mar 2024

Profiled phospho as a GenAI tooling startup and summarized the founders, product, and early traction after the January 2024 raise.

Elaia and YCombinator back Phospho with €1.7M for GenAI application monitoring

Tech.eu · Jan 2024

Covered phospho's €1.7M pre-seed round led by Elaia and Y Combinator and described the company as an LLM monitoring/product analytics startup at the time.

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