Investment firm YZi Labs has taken part in a $52 million funding round in Physical AI startup Roboforce, as per an official press release on Tuesday.
Backed by and spotlighted by NVIDIA’s CEO Jensen Huang at GTX in October 2025, the startup was created in 2023 and is now attempting to scale its innovations into mass-scale product rollouts. It is headed by Leo Ma, who previously worked as co-founder and engineering VP for CYNGYN.
As part of the investment, YZi Labs managing partner Ella Zhang will take a board seat at Roboforce.
“RoboForce is at the forefront of a paradigm shift in how machines interact with the world,” said YZi managing partner Ella Zhang.
“I am thrilled to join the board and work closely with the leadership team to scale their Physical AI capabilities. This is beyond a financial investment; it’s a partnership built on the shared belief that the next frontier of AI will be defined by its impact on the physical plane,”
The funding from this investment will be used for the expansion of the manufacturing footprint, improving its AI foundation models, and commercializing its pilot programs.
In 2025, YZi labs was identified as a high-profile financial backer of multiple startups including Polymarket alternative Opinionlabsxyz—around the same time that Changpeng Zhao backtracked on X from being publicly identified with the investment when he retracted his reply on the social platform.
Other high-profile investments made by YZi labs such as a hefty financial commitment in BitGo’s IPO and a fund for BNB builders.