Series C: $100 Million to Scale Autonomous Industrial Robotics Platform

The round is co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation, an investment company owned by Exor. Additional participants include 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.

Autonomous robotics for real-world manufacturing

RobCo enables the autonomous operation of robots in industrial manufacturing. This is powered by physical AI, combining visual perception, motion planning, and self-learning systems.

Our goal is to make the transition from existing processes to step-by-step automation easier while significantly reducing setup and operational effort. This allows our customers to focus more on their core processes and value creation.

“With the additional $100 million in funding, we aim to make RobCo the leading provider of AI-powered robotics for industrial manufacturing in the US and Europe,” says Roman Hölzl, CEO and Founder of RobCo. “Our clear objective is to automate repetitive tasks so people can focus on more demanding work.”

A platform for autonomous applications

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.

RobCo 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 - with RobCo acting as a single pane of glass for customers.

“With the additional $100 million in funding, we aim to make RobCo the leading provider of AI-powered robotics for industrial manufacturing in the US and Europe,” says Roman Hölzl, CEO and Founder of RobCo. “Our clear objective is to automate repetitive tasks so people can focus on more demanding work.”

Scaling deployments for U.S. enterprises

Since 2025, RobCo has been active in the US with locations in San Francisco and Austin. In the American market, we are seeing strong demand for automation solutions. Key drivers include labor shortages, the reshoring of production capacity, and increasing operational complexity.

Hundred RobCo robots are already deployed across a wide range of industrial environments. From global manufacturers such as BMW, T-Systems, and Rosenberger, to companies including DynaEnergetics and Fabricated Extrusion Company.

With this Series C financing, we are now accelerating platform development, scaling deployments with enterprise customers, and strengthening our presence across the US and Europe.