69 Best Industrial Automation Startups to Watch in 2025

The Definitive Seedtable Ranking of Industrial Automation Startups

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There are 104 start-ups with an aggregate funding of $2.6b. The average funding per company in this subset is $37.3m.

Last update to the database: Feb 18, 2025. See changelog.

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15

Funding Rounds

$140.4m

Money raised

Synthace is a software company based out of London, UK, building automation software that gives biologists the ability to control and analyze the performance of lab hardware.

7

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$156.3m

Money raised

Iron Ox is a company developing robotic farms founded in 2015 by Brandon Alexander.

8

Funding Rounds

$54.9m

Money raised

A software company that specializes in technology for manufacturing. It is located in London, England and was founded in 2016.

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8

Funding Rounds

$77.3m

Money raised

DroneSeed is a Seattle-based company that provides automated reforestation services.

5

Funding Rounds

$101.6m

Money raised

Automata is a technology company working to automate physical work. It is based in London, England and was founded in 2015.

14

Funding Rounds

$441.3m

Money raised

Tines is a dublin-based no-code security automation company founded in 2018.

3

Funding Rounds

$66.0m

Money raised

DotData is a Cupertino, California-based big data company that delivers end-to-end data science automation for enterprises.

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$8.1m

Money raised

Promobot LLC focuses on designing, developing, and manufacturing of autonomous service robots.

7

Funding Rounds

$39.2m

Money raised

Harvest Automation is a agricultural robotic company.

3

Funding Rounds

$11.3m

Money raised

Stocked Robotics, Inc., now known as SIERA.AI is a company that operates in Industrial Mobility Safety & Asset Lifecycle Management.

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5

Funding Rounds

$2.5m

Money raised

BladeInsight is a company with the commitment to allying powerful technological solutions with blade expertise for tailored industry-focused solutions.

5

Funding Rounds

$12.5m

Money raised

American Robotics, Inc. is a company founded in 2012 by Eitan Babcock, Reese Mozer and Vijay Somandepalli.

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$6.0m

Money raised

Timeseer.AI is an AI/ML based Robo advisory for Time-Series Analytics founded in 2020 by Bert Baeck.

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10

Funding Rounds

$42.8m

Money raised

Arculus is a company headquartered in Ingolstadt, Germany.

9

Funding Rounds

$83.8m

Money raised

PassiveLogic is a company founded by John Easterling.

6

Funding Rounds

$17.5m

Money raised

Litmus Automation is a San Jose, California-based company founded in 2014 by John Younes, Sacha Sawaya, Isha Sheth and Vatsal Shah.

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4

Funding Rounds

$49.9m

Money raised

Magazino is a company in Munich, Germany.

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$26.2m

Money raised

Shenzhen Yuejiang Technology Co., Ltd. is a Guangdong, China-based robotics and industrial automation company.

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$25.0k

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JuggerBot 3D is an additive manufacturing machine builder focused on designing and building 3D printing solutions.

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Funding Rounds

$1.4m

Money raised

doks. Innovation GmbH provides tools to digitize warehouses and stocktaking.

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$5.5m

Money raised

Kinta AI is a cloud-based, analytics SaaS platform for manufacturers designed to optimize production processes.

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Funding Rounds

$83.4k

Money raised

Company building smart autonomous robots for farm owners.

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$6.1m

Money raised

Raven AI is a company enhances efficiency, delivery, and teamwork for manufacturing facilities through a user-friendly platform.

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6

Funding Rounds

$19.4m

Money raised

Tego is a Waltham, Massachusetts-based company founded by Timothy Butler, Bob Hamlin and Suhail Ahmad.

3

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$130.0m

Money raised

Real-time location intelligence for the Internet of Things.

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3

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$38.5m

Money raised

Telexistence is a company in Tokyo.

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2

Funding Rounds

$46.0m

Money raised

First Resonance is developFirst Resonance develops ION Factory OS, a robust manufacturing production software that provides data insights and improves scalability.

4

Funding Rounds

$7.6m

Money raised

Collision tolerant drone for in-structure and indoor inspection.

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Funding Rounds

$25.0m

Money raised

Kinova develops assistive robotics solutions for healthcare, education, government, nuclear, advanced manufacturing and other applications.

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1

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Senrio is a Portland, Oregon-based IoT security company.

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$2.7m

Money raised

Developer of an inventory and task management platform designed to track equipment maintenance. The company's platform features the ability to track the condition of all equipment, extend the equipment's life, and reduce the environmental footprint, enabling businesses to save cash, staff time, energy, and equipment uptime.

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$28.0m

Money raised

Smartex is a company that offers solutions to reduce textile waste.

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$20.5m

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Platform improving motion control using advanced digital technology.

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3

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$28.1m

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Using smart AI and IoT cloud-based technologies to optimize performance of pre-digital factory machinery and acquire full Industry 4.0 capabilities

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$20.5m

Money raised

IAM Robotics developed autonomous mobile robots for material handling.

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5

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$6.7m

Money raised

Osprey Informatics is a Calgary-based company founded by Michael von Hauff.

3

Funding Rounds

$230.6m

Money raised

Keenon Robotics is focused on developing commercial service robots for applications in a variety of industries.

6

Funding Rounds

$1.6m

Money raised

Hypermo developed a laser-based tool for glass processing.

3

Funding Rounds

$100.0k

Money raised

Jetbrain Robotics develops robotics and IoT-based smart logistics and assistive care solutions for applications in healthcare.

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2

Funding Rounds

$11.9m

Money raised

Root AI is a company that produces robots for agricultural production and harvest.

3

Funding Rounds

$145.8m

Money raised

Vention is a digital manufacturing automation platform that helps companies automate their production floor.

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3

Funding Rounds

$10.0m

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Sirqul, Inc. is an IoT company with a platform that empowers companies and organizations to deploy IoT solutions in the Cloud.

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$2.5m

Money raised

SynTouch is a company founded in 2008 by Jeremy Fishel, David Groves, Gerald Loeb and Matthew Borzage.

1

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$150.0k

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Lucid Drone Technologies provides drone-powered heavy-duty sanitation and cleaning solutions.

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ficonTEC Service GmbH assembles and tests automated optoelectronic components and photonic devices.

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$536.1k

Money raised

ScoutDI is a company that offers a drone system for inspecting confined spaces.

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Authentise is a company founded in 2012 by Andre Wegner, Karla Lopez and Ann Rogan.

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Funding Rounds

$96.0m

Money raised

Seek Thermal is a Santa Barbara, California-based company founded in 2012 by Tim Fitzgibbons.

2

Funding Rounds

$150.0k

Money raised

Chemical Technologies is a company that generates profit for manufacturing plants.

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$59.9k

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IBCRobotics is providing industries with non-water, automated, environmentally-friendly cleaning solutions.

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3

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$11.4m

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Basetwo helps manufacturers troubleshoot and optimize their production processes to increase efficiency and reduce waste.

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10

Funding Rounds

$258.4m

Money raised

Jiangsu Beiren Robot System Co., Ltd. produces and sells automation equipment.

4

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$50.0k

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Element ID is a technology company that offers manufacturing equipment for RFID companies.

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1

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$4.2m

Money raised

Terabee is a tech company that manufactures sensor modules.

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$2.2m

Money raised

Advanced Intelligent Systems Inc. is a North Vancouver-based company founded in 2013 by Farhang Bidram.

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$2.5m

Money raised

unspun uses body scanning technology to manufacture bespoke jeans.

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4

Funding Rounds

$20.4m

Money raised

A robotics company attending to the needs of multiple prominent industries.

3

Funding Rounds

$13.0m

Money raised

Senecio Robotics is a Tel Aviv-based company founded in 2013.

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Funding Rounds

$11.5m

Money raised

Skysys is an intelligent drone automatic operation platform.

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$2.5m

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Blue Danube Robotic works on secure human robot collaboration in mass production.

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$1.5m

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Operator of a real-time data platform intended to remove data engineering dependencies that delay or block real-time machine learning and analytics deployments. The company's platform allows data scientists to build their own streaming data pipelines.

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$1.9m

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Clip Automation is digitizing the manufacturing landscape by uniting people, processes, and machines in one web and mobile platform.

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$1.1m

Money raised

SixSense is a technology company that specializes in smarter manufacturing.

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2

Funding Rounds

$9.0m

Money raised

KREATIZE is a company founded in 2015.

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Juvo Robotics provides an efficient automated baggage handling system designed to enhance the productivity of airport workers.

3

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$5.7m

Money raised

CEEWA is company that focuses on the developing industrial-grade unmanned aerial vehicles.

6

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$1.8m

Money raised

Ombitron is a Seattle-based company founded by Paul Hammann.

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$1.0m

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Sixdof Space is a company that develops optical tracking technology.

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