7 Robotics & Hardware companies raised a combined $935.1M across 2 pre-seed, 1 seed, 4 series a. Tracked daily from announcement. Founder contacts and growth signals included.
- Pete Florence is a former Google DeepMind researcher who helped architect the PaLM-E and RT-2 robotics models before co-founding Generalist AI.
- Jiaqiang Ye Zhu co-founded THEKER in 2022 after meeting his co-founder as an engineering student at UPC in Barcelona, where they ran the university robotics club.
- A former Anduril engineer who previously worked at Chip Ganassi Racing and The Boring Company.
The Robotics & Hardware sector saw 7 funding rounds tracked on FundedStartupsDaily this year, totalling $935.1M. The median round sits at $42M, with 43% of activity at pre-seed and seed stage and the remaining 57% at Series A and later. Pre-Seed rounds dominate, accounting for 29% of all Robotics & Hardware activity in 2026.
Geographically, Robotics & Hardware funding is concentrated in United States, which accounts for 4 of the 7 raises (57%). The remainder is distributed across other regions tracked by FundedStartupsDaily.
The largest Robotics & Hardware round in 2026 is Generalist AI's $400M series a, led by Pete Florence.
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 | Orbital orbital.space | Seed | $5M | Euwyn Poon CEO & Founder | United States | Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 2 | Layup Parts layupparts.com | Series A | $42M | Zack Eakin CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Hardware B2B | |
| 3 | Invisible-Light Labs invisible-light-labs.com | Pre-Seed | €1.5M | Josiane P. Lafleur CEO & Co-founder | Austria | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware | |
| 4 | THEKER theker.ai | Series A | $85M | Jiaqiang Ye Zhu CEO & Co-founder | Spain | Series A Hardware AI-Native | |
| 5 | Generalist AI generalistai.com | Series A | $400M | Pete Florence Co-founder & CEO | United States | Series A AI-Native Deep Tech | |
| 6 | Generalist AI generalist.com | Series A | $400M | Pete Florence CEO & Co-founder | United States | Series A Hardware AI-Native | |
| 7 | Invisible-Light Labs invisible-light-labs.com | Pre-Seed | $1.6M | Josiane P. Lafleur CEO & Co-founder | Austria | Pre-Seed Deep Tech Hardware |