29 Robotics & Hardware companies raised a combined $837.9M across 7 pre-seed, 16 seed, 5 series a. Tracked daily from announcement. Founder contacts and growth signals included.
- Bacancy Systems is targeting two high-growth infrastructure verticals - EV and railway tech - with a single Series A raise led by Sabre Partners and Greenstone Capital.
- Jan is a trained engineer with an MBA who previously led a mechanical engineering firm before co-founding eleQtron as a spin-off from the University of Siegen in 2020.
- Thornburg was a key engineer at SpaceX where he turned a government research project into the Raptor engine, SpaceX's most powerful rocket engine ever built.
The Robotics & Hardware sector saw 29 funding rounds tracked on FundedStartupsDaily this year, totalling $837.9M. The median round sits at $9M, with 79% of activity at pre-seed and seed stage and the remaining 21% at Series A and later. Pre-Seed rounds dominate, accounting for 24% of all Robotics & Hardware activity in 2026.
Geographically, Robotics & Hardware funding is concentrated in United States, which accounts for 10 of the 29 raises (34%). The remainder is distributed across other regions tracked by FundedStartupsDaily.
The largest Robotics & Hardware round in 2026 is Bacancy Systems's â¹400M series a, led by Hardik Sheth. Robotics & Hardware activity accelerated through Apr, when raises jumped to 19 announcements.
Every entry on this page is sourced from public funding announcements, then enriched with founder LinkedIn handles, company websites, and growth signals. If you're a founder, operator, salesperson, or recruiter tracking Robotics & Hardware, this page updates every weekday with new rounds.
| # | Company | Stage | Raised | Founder / CEO | Region | Signals | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Config config.inc | Seed | $27M | Minjoon Seo CEO & Co-founder | South Korea | Seed Hardware AI-Native | |
| 2 | WaiV Robotics waivrobotics.com | Seed | $7.5M | Johnny Carni Founder & CEO | United Kingdom | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 3 | Config config.ai | Seed | $27M | Minjoon Seo Co-Founder & CEO | South Korea | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 4 | FrostByte frostbyte.tech | Pre-Seed | $1.5M | James Kroll CEO & Co-founder | Netherlands | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 5 | eleQtron eleqtron.com | Series A | $61M | Jan Leisse Co-Founder & CEO | Germany | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 6 | Antioch antioch.dev | Seed | $8.5M | Harry Mellsop Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 7 | Atech atech.dev | Pre-Seed | $800K | Tomas Erik Harmer CEO and Co-founder | Denmark | Pre-Seed Hardware AI-Native | |
| 8 | Brilliance brilliancergb.com | Seed | $6.5M | Tim Tiek Co-founder & CEO | Netherlands | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 9 | Crewline AI crewline.ai | Seed | $7.1M | Frederik Filz-Reiterdank CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 10 | Brilliance brilliance-rgb.com | Seed | $6.5M | Tim Tiek CEO & Co-founder | Netherlands | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 11 | Bubble Robotics bubble-robotics.com | Pre-Seed | $5M | Jean Crosetti Co-founder & CEO | Switzerland | Pre-Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 12 | Bubble Robotics bubblerobotics.com | Pre-Seed | $5M | Jean Crosetti CEO & Co-founder | Switzerland | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 13 | Syenta syenta.com | Series A | $26M | Jekaterina Viktorova CEO & Co-founder | Australia | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 14 | OrangeQS orangeqs.com | Seed | $17M | Garrelt Alberts Executive Director & Co-founder | Netherlands | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 15 | Antioch antioch.ai | Seed | $8.5M | Harry Mellsop Co-founder & CEO | United States | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 16 | Ulysses ulysses.inc | Series A | $38M | Akhil Voorakkara CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 17 | Citra Space Corp citraspace.com | Series A | $15M | Tom Nichols CEO & Co-Founder | United States | Series A Deep Tech B2B | |
| 18 | Qoro Quantum qoroquantum.net | Pre-Seed | $750K | Dan Holme CEO & Co-Founder | Finland | Pre-Seed Deep Tech API-First | |
| 19 | Portal Space Systems portalsystems.space | Series A | $50M | Jeff Thornburg CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 20 | Anvil Robotics anvil.bot | Seed | $6.5M | Mike Xia CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Hardware AI-Native | |
| 21 | Q-Factor q-factor.ai | Seed | $24M | Guy Raz CEO & Co-founder | Israel | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 22 | Q-Factor qfactor.io | Seed | $24M | Ofer Firstenberg Co-founder & Chief Scientist | Israel | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 23 | CavilinQ cavilinq.com | Seed | $8.8M | Shankar Menon CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Deep Tech Second-Time Founder | |
| 24 | Anvil Robotics anvilrobotics.com | Seed | $5.5M | Mike Xia CEO & Co-founder | United States | Seed Hardware AI-Native | |
| 25 | Rhonexum rhonexum.com | Pre-Seed | $1M | Hung-Chi Han Founder & CEO | Switzerland | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 26 | Nature Robots naturerobots.com/en | Seed | $4.6M | Sebastian Pütz Co-Founder & CEO | United States | Seed Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 27 | Bacancy Systems bacancysystems.com | Series A | â¹400M | Hardik Sheth Co-Founder & CEO | India | Series A Hardware Deep Tech | |
| 28 | Stateful Robotics statefulrobotics.com | Pre-Seed | $4.8M | Kirsty Lloyd-Jukes CEO | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed Deep Tech AI-Native | |
| 29 | Lace | Seed | $40M | Bodil Holst CEO | Norway | Seed Deep Tech Hardware |