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• Munich-based RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation through an employee secondary share sale, doubling its valuation in just nine months.

• Existing investors including Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenfield, Kindred, Lingotto and Promus Ventures participated alongside new backers Cherry Ventures and European Tech Collective.

• RobCo is preparing to launch Alfie, its autonomous industrial robot, commercially in 2027 as it doubles down on the US manufacturing market.

RobCo has surpassed a $1 billion valuation through a secondary share sale that allows long-standing employees to realise part of the value they helped create, while bringing new investment into the Munich-founded autonomous robotics company.

The transaction combines new investment into the business with a secondary share sale that gives long-standing employees the opportunity to realise part of the value they have helped create since RobCo’s founding.

Existing investors Sequoia, Lightspeed, Greenfield, Kindred, Lingotto and Promus Ventures participated alongside new investors including Cherry Ventures and European Tech Collective, a group of founders behind some of Europe’s most successful technology companies.

This follows RobCo’s $100 million Series C announced in January 2026, co-led by Lightspeed and Lingotto, to expand its Physical AI platform and US operations.

“This is an important moment for RobCo, and I cannot think of a better way to mark it than by giving some of the people who built this company the opportunity to realize part of the value they created,” said Roman Hölzl, Co-founder and CEO of RobCo. “There was strong demand to invest in RobCo, so we used that moment to strengthen the company.”

From Munich to US factory floors

RobCo was founded in 2020 by Roman Hölzl, Paul Maroldt, and Constantin Dresel, RobCo is building autonomous industrial robotics around a Robotics-as-a-Service model, allowing manufacturers to deploy automation without significant upfront investment.

At the centre of the company’s next phase is Alfie, a robot designed to combine perception, reasoning and execution for high-mix, unstructured and safety-critical industrial work.

RobCo plans to commercially launch Alfie at RobCoN, its first annual summit, in Munich on March 4, 2027.

The company is already expanding rapidly in the US, its fastest-growing market. Customer operations now span more than a dozen states, supported by manufacturing and assembly operations in Austin, Texas, and a laboratory in San Francisco. Hölzl has also relocated to the US to lead the expansion.

A robotics market getting bigger

The opportunity is expanding alongside RobCo’s ambitions. The International Federation of Robotics says factories worldwide installed 603,000 industrial robots in 2025, up 11%, while the global operational stock reached 5.079 million robots, up 9%. The IFR expects installations to rise another 9% to 655,000 units in 2026.

RobCo faces increasingly well-funded rivals targeting different parts of industrial automation.

Standard Bots raised $200 million in Series C funding in June 2026 at a $1 billion valuation, co-led by General Catalyst and RoboStrategy, to scale AI-powered industrial robots across US factories.

Walden Robotics emerged from stealth in July with $300 million in seed funding at a $1.1 billion valuation, backed by Toyota and Deviation Capital, with robots already working inside Toyota factories.

Meanwhile, UK-based Dexory raised $165 million in its latest funding round, including a $100 million Series C, to scale autonomous robots and AI-powered warehouse intelligence globally.

Taking Physical AI into production

RobCo’s ambition goes beyond selling another industrial robot. By combining autonomous hardware, AI-driven software and Robotics-as-a-Service, it wants factories to deploy machines that can adapt to changing environments rather than remain locked into narrowly defined tasks.

“RobCo is building for a future in which AI doesn’t just reason and generate, but acts in the physical world. The progress the company has made over the past few years is impressive, but we believe this is still the beginning”, added Luciana Lixandru, Partner at Sequoia Capital.

With its valuation now above $1 billion, its US expansion accelerating and Alfie approaching commercial launch, RobCo is betting that the next generation of factory automation will be defined not simply by robots, but by machines capable of understanding and acting in the physical world.

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