Directory / Industry
Robotics
8 founders building in Robotics.
Puru Rastogi
Raised $3M pre-seed led by Version One Ventures with angels including Soumith Chintala; expanding to the US market, addressing a large industrial automation opportunity.
Stefan Weirich
Leads mimic, which has raised over $20M and shipped an in-house dexterous hand (M1) and exoskeleton (U1), drawing talent from DeepMind, Tesla and Stanford.
Shirley Chen
Raised ~$50M in back-to-back Series B rounds (total ~$70M) after earlier $13M round backed by a DJI angel; covered by TechCrunch multiple times as a leading foodservice robotics founder.
Yu Yinan
Secured a large seed round (~RMB100M) led by Horizon Robotics and Hillhouse-affiliated GL Ventures; press describes it as the largest single-round funding in its niche as it moves toward mass production.
Tomaž Štolfa
Emerged from stealth with $8.5M seed led by Plural to democratize industrial automation; prior track record building/backing multiple startups since 2010.
Miks Ozols
Raised $1.6M seed for Loki Robotics, backed by byFounders, Acequia Capital and Unruly Capital, tackling a high-complexity real-world robotics niche (facility cleaning).
Zehan Wang
Repeat founder with an exit (Magic Pony/Twitter) now building embodied AI/robotics at Paddington Robotics, an early-stage London startup founded 2024.
Deepak Reddy
Deep aerospace/robotics engineering background (Skyroot, SS Innovations) and T-Works incubation, but no confirmed funding round or public traction metrics found.
