Tether leads $1.4 billion funding round in German robotics company Neura

Finance Share Share this article Copy link X icon X (Twitter) LinkedIn Facebook Email Tether leads $1.4 billion funding round in German robotics company Neura The investment is part of the stablecoin giant’s expansion into industries outside of crypto. By Olivier Acuna | Edited by Sheldon Reback Jun 11, 2026, 1:49 p.m. 1 min read Make preferred on German startup Neura Robotics raised $1.5 billion in a round led by Tether Investments with participation from Nvidia, Qualcomm, Amazon. (Gabimedia/Pixabay) What to know : Tether Investments led a $1.4 billion funding round for German startup Neura Robotics, in what it described as one of the largest investments in physical AI to date. The round, which included Qualcomm Technologies, Amazon and NVIDIA, was expected to value Neura around $9 billion-$12 billion. Neura plans to produce 5 million AI-powered humanoid robots by 2030, equipping them with Tether-linked digital wallets so they can be paid for work and make electronic payments autonomously. Tether Investments said it led a $1.4 billion funding round for Neura Robotics, a German startup developing AI-powered humanoid robots, in what it called one of the largest investments into physical AI on record. The funding, announced Wednesday , was projected to value Neura between $9 billion and nearly $12 billion when it first became public last November . Other participants in the round included Qualcomm Technologies, Amazon and NVIDIA, Neura said in a post on its website . Neither Tether nor Neura responded immediately to a CoinDesk request for further information. “AI is moving from the digital world into the physical world," David Reger, founder and CEO of Neura Robotics, said in a statement. The company recently said it aims to produce 5 million robots by 2030 with about $1.2 billion orders already. Tether, the issuer of the USDT stablecoin, is building its own technology right into Neura's systems. The robots will receive their own independent digital wallets, allowing them to be paid automatically the moment they finish a job. They will also be able to make electronic payments to other machines, cutting out human managers, paperwork and bank delays. Under CEO Paolo Ardoino, the El Salvador-based company is spending in a range of industries outside of the immediate crypto sector. Its growing portfolio includes investments in agriculture, brain tech and sports. The company made over $10 billion in profit in the first nine months of 2025 by investing rese Tether Artificial Intelligence Stablecoins More For You Citi opens new route into private markets with tokenized share offering By Helene Braun , AI Boost | Edited by Nikhilesh De 23 minutes ago The bank said it is using blockchain technology to connect investors with private company equity through digital depositary receipts. What to know : Citigroup has introduced Digital Depositary Receipts, a blockchain-based product that lets wealthy and institutional investors gain exposure to private company shares through securities issued and held by the bank. The new structure adapts traditional depositary receipts for private markets and records them on blockchain infrastructure run by Swiss operator SIX,... Read full story Latest Crypto News CoinDesk 20 performance update: Uniswap (UNI) gains 4.5% as all constituents rise 4 minutes ago Citi opens new route into private markets with tokenized share offering 23 minutes ago Ondo Finance hires former Invesco ETF chief to build onchain investment products 52 minutes ago It's not SpaceX. Bitcoin ETF outflows may be an arbitrage story 1 hour ago Michael Saylor and Jack Mallers go toe-to-toe over Strategy's bitcoin reporting metrics 1 hour ago As SpaceX IPO approaches, Polymarket, Ventuals assign $2 trillion valuation onchain 2 hours ago Top Stories Live updates: Bitcoin nears $63,000 ahead of highly anticipated SpaceX IPO 8 hours ago Privacy returns to focus as Ethereum developers explore new token standards 19 hours ago Corporate bitcoin buying has collapsed from $500 million per day to almost negligible 8 hours ago BlackRock and Fidelity are quietly turning bitcoin ETFs into a two-firm market 19 hours ago Bitcoin has reached a deep bear-market valuation zone. The hard part may come next. 9 hours ago Mastercard prepares for a future where AI agents make payments 21 hours ago