RobCo has raised $100 million in Series C financing for the development of its autonomous industrial robotics platform, to expand enterprise deployments, and increase its presence in the United States market. The funding round was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation, with participation from Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital, Leitmotif, and The Friedkin Group.
Founded in 2020 in Munich, RobCo develops physical AI-driven robotic systems designed for use in active industrial production environments. The company’s platform integrates perception, motion planning, and self-learning capabilities to enable robots to perform tasks with increasing autonomy. RobCo develops its hardware and software as a unified system, allowing robots to acquire task-specific capabilities through demonstration and learning rather than manual programming, with the aim of reducing deployment and maintenance complexity for customers.
The company operates a vertically integrated model and delivers its technology through a robotics-as-a-service approach. Its systems are used for applications including machine tending, palletizing, dispensing, and welding. RobCo’s robots are currently deployed across a range of industrial settings, including operations at manufacturers such as BMW, as well as companies including DynaEnergetics, Fabricated Extrusion Company, T-Systems, and Rosenberger.
RobCo expanded into the United States in 2025 and now maintains operations in San Francisco and Austin. The company has identified the U.S. as a key growth market, citing increased automation demand driven by labor availability challenges, reshoring initiatives, and growing operational complexity in manufacturing.
Roman Hölzl, chief executive officer and founder of RobCo, said the additional capital would support the company’s efforts to scale its technology across manufacturing operations in the United States and Europe and to further develop its physical AI roadmap.
Investors cited RobCo’s focus on deploying autonomous systems in real-world industrial environments as a factor in the investment. Representatives from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Lingotto Innovation pointed to the company’s combination of existing deployments and longer-term plans to increase autonomy as manufacturing environments adopt more advanced automation technologies.
RobCo operates across Europe and the United States, with offices in Munich, San Francisco, and Austin, and continues to focus on expanding its autonomous manufacturing platform for industrial customers.
