Amazon, Nvidia and more: Tech companies are pumping record sums into German robotics startups

According to David Reger, CEO of the German robotics startup Neura Robotics, robots could be carrying out tasks in every household or helping out in the care sector in just a few years. In order to be able to train its AI-controlled robots accordingly, the company is opening a kind of “gym” for robots together with the Technical University of Munich in mid-2026.

Financing round brings 1.4 billion

Neura Robotics’ ambitious goal: The startup wants to produce “several million” robots by 2030 and expand from Europe to the USA, China and Japan. Neura Robotics has now raised the capital necessary for this as part of a Series C financing round.

Well-known investors such as Amazon, Qualcomm, Nvidia, Tether, Bosch, Schaeffler and the European Investment Bank will invest up to 1.4 billion dollars in the startup, according to a statement. This is the largest round of financing to date for a full-stack robotics company worldwide, as the start-up scene reports.

Record sum for German startup

In addition, no German startup has ever collected such a large sum before. According to Handelsblatt, Neura Robotics had so far raised almost $290 million from investors.

How much money actually flows as part of the current round of financing will depend on the achievement of a number of goals. The company did not want to comment on what these were, nor on the valuation after the investment.

Neura Robotics is probably worth $7 billion

As CNBC writes, citing internal sources, Neura Robotics is now said to be worth around seven billion dollars. This would make the Metzingen-based company, founded in 2019, one of the most valuable European tech startups.

The total amount of global investment in robotics startups in the first five and a half months of 2026 amounts to $55.8 billion. This is a new record and almost twice as much as in the same period last year.

European robotics startups on the rise

According to CNBC, the majority of the money flowed into US or Chinese robotics startups. However, in addition to Neura Robotics, there are other companies in Europe that are interesting for tech investors. This includes the Munich industrial robot startup Agile Robots.

The DLR spinoff, founded in 2018, is said to be currently in discussions about a financing round worth $800 million. According to Bloomberg, the existing major investor Softbank alone wants to raise $300 million.