RobCo Inc., an artificial intelligence-driven robotics company, announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series C funding to advance its automation roadmap and enterprise presence in markets within the United States.
Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation co-led the round, alongside Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif and The Friedkin Group.
“With $100 million of additional funding, we will become the dominant AI robotics company for manufacturing in the U.S. and Europe,” said founder and Chief Executive Roman Hölzl. “This will allow us to execute on our purpose of automating the ordinary, so humans can do the extraordinary.”
RobCo provides the hardware and software for what is increasingly known as physical AI, a branch of artificial intelligence that combines AI with machines. It enables robotics and autonomous systems to perceive, understand and interact with the physical world in real time.
Unlike software-only AI, which only produces text, images, audio and the like, it combines AI models with sensors and actuators to move beyond digital-only tasks and perform “embodied” actions, such as moving robot arms, cars, opening doors and windows, or otherwise manipulating the environment.
Founded in 2020 in Munich, the company expanded into the U.S. in 2025 and now has offices in San Francisco and Austin. Hölzl said the U.S. is a priority for the company and a major growth market as manufacturers continue to modernize.
The company’s robotics and software have been deployed across a range of industrial environments, including large global manufacturers, such as automotive and engineering, such as BMW AG and Rosenberger Group.
RobCo’s robots are developed from day one to acquire task-specific skills through demonstration and self-learning rather than manual programming. This enables them for faster deployment, rapid iteration and makes them adaptable to a multitude of industrial situations and variable processes. The company describes this as “acting as a single pane of glass” for customers in its own parlance.
Robots are delivered through a recurring robots-as-a-service model, supporting industries to automate a wide range of industrial workflows, including machine tending, palletizing, dispensing and welding.
“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,” said Alexander Schmitt, a partner at Lightspeed.
Photo: RobCo
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