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Rising selection · No. 9 in The Rising 100

Stefan Weirich

Co-Founder & CEO · mimic

City
Zurich
Industry
Robotics
Stage
seed
Region
Europe
Rising rank
No. 9

Biography

ETH Zurich-linked roboticist; co-founder and CEO of mimic robotics, building video-action foundation models and dexterous robotic hands for industrial automation.

Why we're watching

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.

mimic

Robotics · Switzerland · seed

What we verified

Confirmed co-founder/CEO title and $20M+ raised via Slush bio, ETH AI Center, Swisspreneur podcast.

Sources

  1. Slush speaker page
  2. ETH AI Center news
  3. Mimic Robotics blog