RobCo
RobCo is a Collaborative Robots company founded in 2020 and based in Munich, Germany.
RobCo was founded in 2020 out of the Technical University of Munich and is headquartered in Munich, Germany, with manufacturing and assembly in Austin, Texas, and a Bay Area lab in San Francisco. It builds robot arms from modular hardware, paired with a physical-AI software stack for perception, path planning and learning from demonstration, the RobFlow no-code programming interface and the RobVision vision system. RobCo sells through robotics-as-a-service: customers pay a monthly rate with no upfront investment, while RobCo owns, deploys, maintains and upgrades the robots. Customers include BMW, DynaEnergetics, Fabricated Extrusion Company, T-Systems and Rosenberger. RobCo launched in the US in September 2025, buying Rapid Robotics' assets, and raised a $100 million Series C on Jan. 29, 2026, co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Exor's Lingotto Innovation with Sequoia Capital participating. On Oct. 5, 2026 it said an employee secondary share sale valued it at more than $1 billion.
RobCo's robotics-as-a-service contracts let manufacturers automate machine tending, palletizing, materials handling and welding without buying the equipment, and the company says hundreds of its robots run in real production environments. By September 2025 it had two assembly sites in Austin and customer operations in 14 US states. On Oct. 5, 2026 RobCo said its valuation had doubled in nine months to more than $1 billion. RobCo said in April 2026 that initial customer deployments of Alfie were planned for later that year.
At a glance
Total raised
Undisclosed
Headcount
201-500
Headquarters
Munich
GermanyFounded
2020
Status
Private
Subsector
Where RobCo ranks
Top 25 Manufacturing companies →Funding history
Total raised
—
Rounds tracked
1
Latest stage
Series C
| Date | Stage | Amount | Valuation | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 29, 2026 | Series C | $100M | — | Lightspeed Venture Partners, Lingotto Innovation |