HAILO400x275Israel’s Hailo has announced it raised $136 million in a Series C funding round, led by Poalim Equity and Gil Agmon. The latest funding brings Hailo’s total funding to $224 million, and the company plans to use the new funds to address surging interest in its Hailo-8 AI Processor for Edge Devices, as well as develop new products and expand into new and existing global markets. 

 

BRINC drone400x275BRINC, an American technology company building a new class of drones in response to active, mass shooter situations, has announced it raised $25 million in Series A funding to expand its mission to keep people safe in dangerous situations. 

 

SkylineRobotics Ozmo400x275Skyline Robotics has announced it has secured $6 million in funding to expand and deploy its Ozmo window-cleaning robots in North America. The company also announced the appointment of Michael Brown as CEO and chairman of the board, and Ross Blum as the company’s chief operating officer.

 

RoboTire400x275RoboTire, a Detroit-based automotive robotics and automation startup, has announced closing a $7.5 million Series A investment round, led by The Reinalt-Thomas Corporation, which does business as Discount Tire and America’s Tire. 

 

Rendered ai 400x275Rendered.ai, a platform provider for physics-based synthetic data, has announced raising $6 million in a seed round, led by Space Capital. The company said the funding will help expand staffing and operations to scale up its platform-as-a-service (PaaS) that supports data scientists, engineers and business innovators who want to use synthetic data to investigate, validate, and expand AI-based technology and business opportunities.

 

ActivSight ActivSurgical400x275Digital surgery firm Activ Surgical has announced it raised $45 million in a Series B financing round. The company’s hardware-agnostic platform and ActivInsights augmented reality (AR) software suite enables autonomous and collaborative surgery through integrating computer vision, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics.

 

 

GrayMatter400x275GrayMatter Robotics, which develops software and artificial intelligence algorithms to create smarter robotic assistants, has announced it raised $4.1 million in seed round funding. The round was co-led by Stage Venture Partners and Calibrate Ventures, with participation from 3M Ventures, OCA Ventures, Pathbreaker Ventures, and B Capital Group.

 

Burro 400x275Burro, formerly known as Augean Robotics, has announced it raised $10.9 million in a Series A funding round. The company’s mobile and collaborative robots provide outdoor assistance for work that people no longer want to do, as well as lay the foundation for more comprehensive automation later.

 

MetoMotion400x275MetoMotion, an Israel-based developer of intelligent robotics systems to help growers operate farms of the future, has announced completing a $5 million investment round. The company said the funds will be used to finalize research and development activities, set up production and marketing activities, and launch the commercial product.

 

StarfishSpace Otter 400x275Starfish Space, a satellite servicing company founded by former Blue Origin engineers, has announced it raised $7 million in funding. The company is developing the Otter space tug, an efficient and versatile satellite servicing vehicle that can capture and move objects in orbit.

 

BlueWhite400x275Blue White Robotics, an Israel-based robotics firm providing robots-as-a-service (RaaS) to enable farms to run autonomously, has announced raising $37 million in Series B funding. THe company said it will use the new funding to increase the rapid adoption of their technologies, drive new U.S. sales, and attract key talent for its all-star international team.

 

China’s Pudu Robotics has announcedPuduRoboticsLineup400x275 completing its C2 series financing round worth approximately $77 million, which was secured within only four months of its Series C1 series of $78 million. The C2 round funds will be used for further research and development, new product development, new site launches, and expansion of its global network.

 

Opentrons400x275Opentrons Labworks has announced a $200 million Series C investment round, led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2, with participation by Khosla Ventures. The company said it will use the new funds to further invest in its automated lab platform globally.

 

IronOxFunding400x275Iron Ox, which launched its autonomous farming platform in 2018, has announced that it closed a $53 million Series C funding round, led by new investor Breakthrough Energy Ventures. The company’s systems grow produce in proprietary greenhouses designed from the ground up to mitigate the environmental impacts of agriculture – using data, plant science, robotics and artificial intelligence.

 

HAI Robotics Funding400x275HAI Robotics, a Chinese warehouse robotics startup that develops autonomous case-handling robotics (ACR), has announced it secured two new continuous rounds of financing (Series C and D), raising $200 million in total. The funds will be used to boost the company’s robot fleet with technological upgrades, expand its global operation networks, optimize its supply chain management, and expand its corporate structure and talent.

 

AdvancedFarmTech400x275Advanced Farm Technologies, which develops robotic technology for farming, has announced it has completed a $25 million Series B investment round to support the company’s growth in strawberry harvesting, and the adaptation of its technology to apple harvesting.