OpenMind

About OpenMind

OpenMind is a technology company building an open and decentralized software foundation for intelligent and collaborative machines. Founded in 2024 by Jan Liphardt, a Stanford University Associate Professor of Bioengineering, the company aims to address the limitations of single-vendor ecosystems in robotics. Liphardt's background is at the intersection of AI, biology, and decentralized systems.

The company's core offerings are OM1 and FABRIC. OM1 is a hardware-agnostic, modular operating system designed to provide robots with multimodal intelligence, allowing them to perceive, plan, and act in complex environments. It functions as an "Android for Robots," integrating various LLMs and vision models to suit different applications. FABRIC is a decentralized peer-to-peer network that enables secure coordination and collaboration between machines. It provides robots with trusted location, on-chain identity, and the ability to share data and skills, acting as a trust layer that allows robots from different manufacturers to work together.

OpenMind's business model is centered on creating the essential intelligence infrastructure for the burgeoning robotics industry. By offering an open, interoperable platform, the company seeks to become the connective tissue for robotics, similar to what Linux and Ethereum did for software. In August 2025, OpenMind announced it had secured $20 million in a funding round led by Pantera Capital, with participation from other notable investors including Ribbit, Coinbase Ventures, and Pebblebed. This capital is intended to expand its engineering team and support collaborations to deploy its technology in sectors like smart manufacturing and autonomous transport.