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

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