sensmore, a Berlin/Potsdam, Germany-based robotics startup, raised $7.3M in funding.
The round was led by Point Nine Capital, and joined by international backers from the US and UK including Acequia Capital, Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company, Prototype Capital, and Entrepreneur First. Investors also included Amar Shah (Wayve), Michael Wax (Forto), Arnoud Balhuizen (former CCO of BHP, board member at Teck Resources), Thilo Konzok, Roby Stancel, Robin Dechant, Alexey Zhigarev, and Elmar Leiblein (former CEO of Thyssenkrupp Mining). Additional funding has been received from the State of Brandenburg and the European Union.
The company intends to use the funds to expand operations and its development efforts.
Led by CTO Bjarne Johannsen and CEO Maximilian Rolf, sensmore is a robotics startup developing Physical AI that turns mobile machines into intelligent robots. As a full-system provider, it retrofits fleets like wheel loaders and haul trucks with a modular platform integrating end-to-end AI and vision-language-action models (VLAMs), enabling real-time automation of complex tasks such as load and carry in production environments where it was previously out of reach.
Customers include CEMEX and Lhoist.
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23/05/2025