Top Early-Stage Robotics Raises (2026)

Walden Robotics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Massachusetts

$300MSeed

Walden Robotics, a full-stack Physical AI company building and deploying general-purpose robots, raised $300 million in a seed round at a $1.1 billion valuation co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital with participation from NVIDIA, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures, Prologis Ventures, CoreWeave Ventures, Calibrate Ventures, Colle Capital, Shine Capital, NextView Ventures, Squarepoint Capital, One Madison Group, KAS Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, and others.

Enigma

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•California

$71MSeed

Enigma, a physical AI robotics startup, raised $71 million in a seed round led by Index Ventures and Ribbit Capital, with participation from Conviction Partners and executives from OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, xAI, Cognition and Wiz.

MicroAGI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Bayern

$55MSeed

MicroAGI, a Munich robotics startup, raised $55 million in a seed round led by Hummingbird Ventures with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global, and redalpine.

Sky Spy

Government and Military • Hardware

•Delaware

$50MSeed

UForce, a defense-tech startup, raised a $50 million seed round led by Shield Capital and Lakestar, with participation from Ballistic Venture.

RLWRLD

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Seoul-t'ukpyolsi

$27.3MSeed

Physical-AI startup RLWRLD raised a ₩39 billion (≈US$26 million) Seed 2 round from Headline Asia, Z Venture, CJ Logistics Corporation, Kakao Investment, LOTTE Ventures, Hanwha Asset Management and the Mirae Asset·emart New Growth Investment Fund.

Config

Data and Analytics • Hardware

•California

$27MSeed

Config, a Seoul- and San Jose–based startup building the data layer for robotic foundation models, raised a $27 million seed round at a valuation of more than $200 million led by Samsung Venture Investment with participation from ZER01NE Ventures (Hyundai), LG Tech Ventures, SKT America, angel Pieter Abbeel, Mirae Asset Ventures, Korea Development Bank, GS Futures, Kakao Ventures, and Z Ventures.

All3

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•England

$25MSeed

All3, a construction robotics and AI startup, raised $25M in a seed round led by RTP Global with participation from SuperSeed, Begin Capital, s16vc and VNV Global.

ATOM

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Hardware

•Tokyo

$18.8MSeed

アトム, a humanoid AI robot developer, raised ¥3.0 billion in a seed round co-led by ANRI, Beyond Next Ventures and the JAFCO Group, with participation from ALPHA, JICベンチャー・グロース・インベストメンツ, 住商ベンチャー・パートナーズ, Blue Lab, 三菱UFJキャピタル and SMBCベンチャーキャピタル.

Six Robotics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Oslo

$13.7MSeed

Six Robotics, an Oslo-based defence-software drone swarm startup, raised €12M in its first institutional equity round led by DTCP Defence with participation from the Export and Investment Fund of Denmark (EIFO), Scale Capital, and other private investors.

Cytronic

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•California

$13.5MSeed

Cytronic, an automated e-commerce fulfillment startup, raised $13.5 million in a seed round led by Slow Ventures with participation from Geek Ventures, Failup Ventures, Alumni Ventures, Spacecadet, Weekend Fund, Mana Ventures, Rice Capital, Script Capital and individual investors including Adam Nash and Gokul Rajaram

Acumino

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Massachusetts

$11.7MSeed

Acumino, Greece's leading robotics startup, raised $11.7 million in a seed round and joined Google DeepMind’s European Robotics Accelerator

Proception

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•California

$11MSeed

Proception, a robotics company developing high-dexterity robotic hands and sensor gloves, raised an $11 million seed round led by First Round Capital with participation from Y Combinator and BoxGroup.

Shifters

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•District of Columbia

$10.2MSeed

Shifters, an AI-native autonomous robotics company, raised $10.2M in a Seed round led by Ace Capital Partners with participation from Aurelius Capital Management, Corner Ventures, Arkin Capital, STEP World and Fresh Fund.

Aseon Labs

Energy • Hardware

•Delaware

$10MSeed

Aseon Labs, a robotics startup building pod-based infrastructure for robotaxis, raised $10 million in a seed round led by Crane Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Expa, Robin Hood Ventures, and Founders Capital.

Rekise Marine

Hardware • Science and Engineering

•Telangana

$9.7MSeed

Rekise Marine, a marine robotics startup, raised $9.7 million in a seed round co-led by Accel and NKSquared with participation from Sameer Brij Verma, Sandeep Singhal, Industrial47, Singularity AMC, the company's founders and several family offices.

Worldmodeldata

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Cambridgeshire

$9.3MSeed

Worldmodeldata, a startup providing licensed video game training data for AI world models, raised £7M in a seed round led by Iona Star Capital

Antioch

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Hardware

•New York

$8.5MSeed

Antioch, a simulation startup for robot developers, raised an $8.5 million seed round at a $60 million valuation led by A* and Category Ventures, with participation from MaC Venture Capital, Abstract, Box Group, and Icehouse Ventures.

Amity Robotics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Krung Thep

$7MSeed

Amity Robotics, a physical AI kiosks and robotics developer, raised $7 million in a seed round led by East Ventures with participation from 500 Global and debt financing from AlteriQ Global

Avatar Robotics

Education • Hardware

•California

$6.5MSeed

Avatar Robotics, an industrial workforce robotics startup, raised $6.5 million Seed led by AlleyCorp alongside a pre-seed led by defy.vc with participation from Headline, Henry Ford III, Refashiond, Paul Vogel, Jack Huffard, and Samuel Udotong.

Breaker

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Texas

$6MSeed

Breaker, a defense autonomy orchestration software startup, raised a $6 million seed round led by Bessemer Venture Partners with participation from Main Sequence.

Anvil Robotics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•California

$5.5MSeed

Anvil Robotics, a 'Legos for robots' hardware, software and manufacturing platform, raised $5.5 million in a seed round led by Matter Venture Partners with participation from Humba Ventures, DNX Ventures, Vivek Sodera, Spacecadet Ventures and Position Ventures.

Foundry Robotics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•California

$5.5MSeed

Foundry Robotics, an AI-first manufacturing and robotics startup, has closed over $19M in total funding from Khosla Ventures, Red Glass Ventures, Zero Shot Fund, Hanabi Capital, Ora Global, and other investors.

Bubble Robotics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Delaware

$5MPre-Seed

Bubble Robotics, an autonomous ocean robotics startup, raised $5M in a pre-seed round led by Episode1 Ventures, Asterion Ventures, and Norrsken Evolve

Exclaim Robotics

Hardware • Science and Engineering

•Zurich

$5MPre-Seed

Exclaim Robotics, a data centre maintenance robotics startup, raised $4.95M in a pre-seed round co-led by Playfair Capital and Founderful with participation from Kindred Capital, HCVC, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, ACE & Company, Amino Collective and several angel investors

Surtr

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Consumer Electronics

•California

$4.8MSeed

Surtr, a c-UAS integration startup, raised a $4.8M seed round led by Allegis Capital, Eniac Ventures, Gaingels, Robinhood Ventures, Streamlined Ventures, and various angels

Stateful Robotics

Hardware • Science and Engineering

•Oxfordshire

$4.8MPre-Seed

Stateful Robotics, an embodied AI company, raised $4.8M in a pre-seed round led by Amadeus Capital Partners and Oxford Science Enterprises with participation from angel investor Stan Boland.

Sitegeist

Hardware • Other

•Bayern

$4.8MPre-Seed

Sitegeist, a construction-robotics startup, raised a €4 million pre-seed round co-led by b2venture and OpenOcean with participation from UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators and several angel investors.

Nature Robots

Agriculture and Farming • Artificial Intelligence (AI)

•Niedersachsen

$4.6MSeed

Nature Robots, an Osnabrück-based AgTech startup developing modular autonomy software for agricultural machinery, raised €4 million in a Seed round backed by Climentum Capital, Bayern Kapital, and Planetary Impact Ventures.

VLM

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•California

$4.3MSeed

VLM, a company developing VLM technology, raised a 40M SEK seed round at a 240M SEK valuation.

Mirai Robotics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) • Data and Analytics

•Puglia

$4.2MPre-Seed

Autonomous maritime robotics startup Mirai Robotics raised a $4.2 million pre-seed round led by Primo Ventures, Techshop and 40Jemz Ventures.