Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The typical hospital spends about 30% of its annual budget on four to seven million items ranging from gloves and catheters to robotic surgery systems, totaling a staggering US$50 to US$250 million. Escalating heart rates, sleep deprived eyes and much anxiety later, we delivered our first category 45 days later.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2021

San Antonio-based Plus One Robotics today announced a $33 million Series B. Launched in 2016, the company is primarily focused on computer vision software for robotics in logistics and warehouse settings — clearly a hot category as more companies look to automate their back end. The round follows an $8.3

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

There’s no denying that the robotics startup world has taken a hit during the ongoing economic downturn. But two things are true: 1) The lull is temporary; and 2) While robotics isn’t recession-proof, construction might as well be. Robotics and automation, similar to those used in manufacturing, are seen as a solution.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

The shift to collaborative robots means the rise of robotics as a service. Again and again, we see these call-and-response patterns of disruptive innovation across supply chain categories. The story repeats as enablers follow disruptors across each category of supply chain business. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Led by Hike Ventures and Real Ventures, the funding includes participation from Toyota AI Ventures and Uphill Capital, among others, designed to help the company pilot its kitchen robotics technology. XRobotics is keeping the dream of pizza robots alive. Food robotics, in particular, have been a focus.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

Warehouse logistics one of the fastest growing verticals for robotics investments amid pandemic-related shutdowns. There’s been plenty of interest in the category over the years, but COVID-19 has accelerated interest on all sides of the equation. Among this category, however, Agility stands out — in more ways than one.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Optimism for high growth in the second half of 2024 The Association for Advancing Automation (A3) just issued its latest report, North America Robot Orders, revealing a 30% drop in robot sales in 2023 that followed the robust performances of 2021 and 2022.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 26, 2024

Software and robotics, for example, have always presented immense potential to automate repetitive mundane tasks that humans perform, freeing them up to do more valuable work. They weren’t living up to their potential and, as a result, there remains a huge category of repetitive processes that humans still perform manually.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2021

When someone mentioned to me that Xiaomi was launching its own “robot dog,” my mind immediately went to Sony’s Aibo. Boston Dynamics has done a lot to imbue its quadrupedal robots with personality, through design language and viral videos of Spot and company busting a move to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. Bear Flag Robotics.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JULY 14, 2024

In some software categories, first mover advantage exists. OpenAI categorizes levels of AI similarly to self-driving cars. What if that little orange elbow is the beginning of reasoning in AI? In search, last mover advantage (Google) won because they benefitted from the learnings of all who came before.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

Israel-based ForSight Robotics announced today that it has raised $10 million for what it has deemed a “mega-seed round.” The company’s surgical platform is designed specifically for ophthalmological (eye) surgeries — a category requiring a great deal of precision. Where top VCs are investing in medical and surgical robotics.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 14, 2022

Singapore-based industrial robotics firm Sesto this week announced a $5.7 Sesto has had a busy few years since that round — as have many in the industrial robotics category, as more companies have looked toward automation during the pandemic. The round follows a similarly sized $4 million Series A, back in 2018.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Alongside this, it is now working with Boston Dynamics and has integrated its Spot robots with Percepto’s Sparrow drones, with the aim being better infrastructure assessments, and potentially more as Spot’s agility improves. ” “It gives us the ability to create a category leader,” Abuhasira said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The highlighted showcase categories. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. These rising-star startups represent the innovation taking place across these tech categories: Hardware, Robotics, AI + ML. HealthTech + BioTech.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Since then, many other types of software businesses have been created in new categories like agriculture technology and robotics. The chart above breaks out 14 different software categories and shows the amount of dollars invested in each category indexed to 2010 levels.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 8, 2024

From supply chains and robotics to advanced factories and industrial autonomy, LLMs and other AI models are powering the next wave of transformation in the physical domain in ways we’re only just beginning to comprehend.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2021

UK-based robotics company CMR Surgical this morning announced a $600 million Series D. The robotic system is designed to perform minimally invasive keyhole surgery, primarily focused on serious conditions like bowel disease or bowel cancer. ” Surgical robotics have been an increasingly popular category for VC funds of late.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Ambi Robotics , a startup developing supply chain automation hardware, today announced that it raised $32 million in additional funding led by Tiger Global and Bow Capital, with participation from Ahren and logistics firm Pitney Bowes. A row of Ambi’s autonomous item-sorting robotic arms deployed to a warehouse floor.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Bay Area-based Rapid Robotics today announced it has raised $5.5 The announcement comes during what has been a solid several months for robotics funding, and more and more companies are looking to automate workforces as the COVID-19 pandemic has ground a lot of productivity to a halt.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

The Category winners and the Special Awards winners will make it to the Global Finals stage. . The reason we’re all here – the XTC Category and Special Awards Winners get their chance to pitch their transformative tech ideas to a panel of expert judges and hear their feedback. Waste Matters. According to the EPA, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2023

Having local expertise in the category every VC wants to invest in right now doesn’t hurt, either. I talked about Pittsburgh’s startup ecosystem on the City Cast Pittsburgh podcast recently in the context of two high-profile startup failures there, Ford- and VW-backed Argo AI and robotic vertical farming outfit Fifth Season.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Five months ago, Ambi Robotics emerged from stealth with a $6 million raise. The startup first hit our radar through the involvement of UC Berkeley (and frequent TC Sessions: Robotics guest Ken Goldberg). The startup first hit our radar through the involvement of UC Berkeley (and frequent TC Sessions: Robotics guest Ken Goldberg).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 6, 2024

Often, companies building in these categories require support that looks different from traditional VC-backed software companies, whether related to an industry-specific go-to-market motion, building teams that blend expertise from traditional industry and fast-scaling tech, or interacting with regulatory bodies.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Register Vietnamese biometric sensor and robotic prosthetics developer Vulcan Augmetics has secured undisclosed seed funding from Singapore-based venture capital firm Quest Ventures. Bookmark ( 0 ) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me No account yet?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Heater has been writing about hardware and robotics for more than a decade and also hosts our annual TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics conference. As we’ll see shortly, hardware and robotics are key to making the Bowery model work at scale, profitably. Part 3: Agtech engineering “ Can LEDs ultimately replace the sun?

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Last summer, Hayward-based Abundant Robotics abruptly closed up shop. Plenty of startups fail , a phenomenon that certainly applies in the notoriously difficult world of robotics. In October, the investment firm involved in robotics startups like Miso and Future Acres purchased Abundant’s IP. Image Credits: Abundant Robotics. “If

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

Launched last year, Retail Watch uses a combination of computer vision, machine learning and hardware like cameras and autonomous robots, to gather real-time data about the shelf availability of products. Other tech companies focused on retail analytics include Quant Retail, Pensa Systems and Bossa Nova Robotics.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 8, 2023

Meanwhile, the broader robotics ecosystem has continued to flourish, with companies focused on mostly industrial “ vertical ” use cases now commanding the bulk of investment dollars. F-Prime State of Robotics Report. From 2018 to 2021, investments in the AV sector across the U.S. You must eventually build a real business

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

“[Cultivate Next will give] early stage ventures great visibility and experience in the restaurant category to work with alongside a large scale operation with domestic and international growth ahead.” “It could be anything from innovations in farming and supply chain, to advanced robotics, and beyond.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 29, 2022

Industrial robotics has in recent years become one of the hottest tech sectors in China as the country encourages the use of advanced technology to enhance efficiency on the production floor. ” A major challenge for robots, said Dong, is to effectively perceive and navigate the world around them. and Hungary. and Hungary.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Robco , a Munich-based startup that has built a platform for designing low-cost modular robots for small and medium industrial businesses, has picked up €13 million (abut $13.8 “When we think about the market we think there are two categories that have dominated,” Hölzl said in an interview.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Luum , a four-year-old, 15-person, Berkeley, California-based robotics company, thinks it can change the math — and attract investment — by “exponentially” expanding the market, says its CEO, Philippe Sanchez, who has overseen large chain businesses, including as a managing director for Starbucks in France.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Deus Robotics Ukrainian Startup Deus Robotics secured a $1.5M seed round funding for its warehouse robotics solutions, led by SMRK VC, a Ukrainian venture fund. Its robots are capable of sorting by direction and moving shelves, which are used in pre-sorting tasks, consolidation, and order picking.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It has a robotic camera, combined with a subscription service, which enables real estate agents and brokers to generate high-resolution photos of properties, floor plans and virtual tours. The camera uses uses a high-specification sensor, lidar laser and robotics. Back in 2020, another player, Giraffe360, raised $4.5

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

That was a win for the category. Northern Light Venture Capital’s He Huang says the Chinese robotics market is overheated : Per the investor, robotics in China is “riddled with speculation and overvalued companies,” calling the situation a bubble. Samsara recently went public on the back of its IoT business. Series F-tw ?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As well as traditional software engineering startups, Switzerland’s largest city boasts a startup culture that emphasizes life sciences, mechanical engineering and robotics. I also think that femtech is a hyped category but funding as well as renown exits are still missing. What are you looking for in your next investment, in general?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

— and to add more product categories into the mix, including health and fitness devices, consumer robots and smart appliances. It will be using the funds to expand to more markets — both to grow its business in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands (where it’s already operating) and to launch in Spain and the U.S.

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