# Kima Ventures

Type: Company

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## Timeline

- **2026-07-07**: Northstar robot plans unveiled — UMA formally unveils its lightweight humanoid robot Northstar and reveals it is in talks with 50 potential customers.
- **2025-12**: UMA emerges from stealth — The Paris-based startup announces its existence and investor backing from Greycroft, Red River West, Kima Ventures, and Factorial.
- **2024**: Cadène leads LeRobot at Hugging Face — After leaving Tesla, Cadène spearheads the creation of LeRobot, an open-source toolkit that becomes a global standard for robot learning.
- **2021**: Cadène joins Tesla — Rémi Cadène begins work on AI for Autopilot and later builds the first neural networks for the Optimus humanoid robot.

## Recent coverage (1 stories)

### UMA's Northstar humanoid robot runs on open-source AI from ex-Tesla Optimus scientist
2026-07-08 02:00:27 · Sentiment: Bullish · Impact: 6/10 · Sources: 2

UMA's humanoid robot Northstar will be powered by AI expertise honed at Tesla and Hugging Face's open-source LeRobot toolkit, leveraging neural network architectures that could accelerate humanoid dexterity and vision systems.
Full story: https://getaibrief.com/story/uma-northstar-open-source-ai-humanoid-robot

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