RobCo Reels In $100 Million

<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO &amp&semi; MUNICH<&sol;strong> &&num;8212&semi; RobCo&comma; a physical AI-driven robotics company raised &dollar;100 million to advance RobCo’s Physical AI roadmap&comma; expand enterprise deployments and deepen the company’s presence in the U&period;S&period; market&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Series C is co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation&comma; alongside Sequoia Capital&comma; Greenfield Partners&comma; Kindred Capital&comma; Leitmotif and The Friedkin Group&period; The venture capital investors bring experience building category-defining technology companies&comma; while the industrial investors leverage deep connections in industry to back growth companies over the long-term&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;With &dollar;100 million of additional funding&comma; we will become the dominant AI robotics company for manufacturing in the U&period;S&period; and Europe” said <b>Roman Hölzl&comma; CEO and Founder of RobCo&period; <&sol;b>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This will allow us to execute on our purpose of automating the ordinary&comma; so humans can do the extraordinary&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Founded in 2020 in Munich&comma; RobCo enables increasingly autonomous robot operations inside real production environments through Physical AI&period; By combining perception&comma; motion planning&comma; and self-learning methods&comma; RobCo’s platform is designed to reduce friction between today’s processes and end-to-end automation&comma; allowing teams to focus less on setting up and maintaining systems and more on their core business processes and value drivers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The company has been vertically integrated from day one&comma; developing hardware and software as a single full-stack platform&period; Its robots can acquire task-specific skills through demonstration and self-learning rather than manual programming&comma; enabling faster deployment&comma; rapid iteration&comma; and easier adaptation to complex or variable processes &&num;8211&semi; with RobCo acting as a single pane of glass for customers&period;<b><&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>RobCo expanded into the United States in 2025 and now operates in San Francisco and Austin&period; The U&period;S&period; has become both a strategic priority and a major growth market as manufacturers accelerate automation efforts in response to labor constraints&comma; reshoring initiatives&comma; and rising operational complexity&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>RobCo’s robots are deployed across a range of industrial environments&comma; from large global manufacturers such as BMW to companies including DynaEnergetics&comma; Fabricated Extrusion Company&comma; T-Systems&comma; and Rosenberger&period;<b><&sol;b><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;After leading RobCo’s Series B&comma; we’re excited to double down and co-lead this &dollar;100 million round&period; Our bar is exceptionally high&comma; and RobCo has continued to raise the standard for what modern robotics can look like in real-world production&comma;” said <b>Alexander Schmitt&comma; Lightspeed&period;<&sol;b> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;RobCo has what it takes to build a global champion&colon; systems that already deliver in industrial environments today and a platform grounded in Physical AI that can scale across use cases and geographies&period; This investment supports RobCo’s expansion with a focus on the U&period;S&period; and the continued development of a roadmap that compounds learning and grows capability over time&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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