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Funding and backers

Total raised
$142.5M
4 rounds on record
Latest round
$100M
Series C · Jan 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
31
+11 posted in 30 days
Grants
$494k
2 grants · CORDIS
Backers
7
Crew Capital, Freigeist Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · and hiring
Momentum
59/100
hiring for its size, a new city, in the news, fresh money
Last sign of life
this month
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Jun 1 Won a grant $300k · CORDIS Jan 29 Raised a round Series C $100M Feb 26, 2024 Raised a round Venture round $42.5M · Silicon Republic Mar 1, 2022 Won a grant $194k · CORDIS 2020 Founded
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Web presence
top 8%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Grant Jun 2026 $300k — CORDIS
Series C Jan 2026 $100M — businesswire.com
Venture round Feb 2024 $42.5M — Silicon Republic
Grant Mar 2022 $194k — CORDIS
Founders and leadersfrom filings, registers and the company's site
Roman HölzlVertreten durchcompany's site
Paul MaroldtVertreten durchcompany's site
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How RobCo hires

Truth index
B 81/100
Median time to fill
68 days
Ghost roles
0%
Stale roles
56%
Reposted roles
0%

RobCo scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 0% look like ghost listings, 56% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 68 days. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed

Visa sponsorship

  • United States · H-1B filings in 12 months: 2

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Overview

RobCo is a Munich company founded in 2020 that sells modular robots to small and mid-sized manufacturers. Its arms are assembled from standard modules and configured through simple software, avoiding lengthy integration projects. The company offers robotics as a subscription to firms that cannot justify traditional automation.

News

News Machine Design 25 days ago
Q&A: Robco on Robotics-as-a-Service and the Move Toward Physical AI
A conversation with RobCo's Arjan Van Staveren on why the future of factory automation runs on physical AI-and a subscription model.
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News heise online 6 months ago
RobCo Autonomous Alfie: adaptable industrial robot
The robot Autonomous Alfie from Munich-based manufacturer RobCo is designed to learn in operation and adapt to changing industrial tasks.
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News Pulse 2.0 9 months ago
RobCo: $100 Million Series C Raised To Scale Physical AI Robotics In U.S. And Europe
RobCo, a Munich-founded physical AI-driven robotics company, has raised $100 million in Series C funding to advance its
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News SiliconANGLE 9 months ago
RobCo nabs $100M to scale autonomous industrial robotics platform
RobCo nabs $100M to scale autonomous industrial robotics platform - SiliconANGLE
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News Silicon Republic 9 months ago
Germany's Robco raises $100m to expand growing US presence
German automation start-up Robco has raised $100m to advance its physical AI roadmap and accelerate its US market presence.
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News Silicon Republic 2 years ago
Robco raises $42.5m to expand its plug-and-play robots
Robot automation company Robco will use its new funding to further develop its product and expand its distribution channels.
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Press release PRNewswire 2 years ago
Lightspeed Invests in RobCo
/PRNewswire/ -- RobCo, an expert in modular, affordable, and connected robotics automation solutions for SMEs, welcomes global venture powerhouse Lightspeed...
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Tech stack

Technologies named in job postings at RobCo over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
63
Postings analysed
51
Stack modernity
80/100AI adopter
Languages
Python22%
C++8%
Embedded C2%
Go2%
Frameworks & libraries
Pytest4%
NumPy2%
ROS2%
ROS22%
Cloud & platforms
AWS4%
Amazon EC24%
Amazon EKS4%
Amazon S34%
AI & ML
Claude2%
LLM2%
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People

Roman Hölzl
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Paul Maroldt
Vertreten durch
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Growth

Hiring Momentum
73/100
Growing
Open positions
31
6 opened / 15 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
67 days
faster than 20% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~4 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics +100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
33% ▲
Industrial Engineering
11% ▼
DevOps
7%
Robotics
7% ▼
Finance
7% ▼
Marketing
7% ▲
Actively hiring for Sales (+8 in 30 days)
Activity Timeline
New location: United States Oct 2026
Added Sealed Secrets to stack Oct 2026
Added GitOps to stack Oct 2026
Added GitLab CI to stack Oct 2026
Added GitLab to stack Oct 2026
Added Git to stack Oct 2026
Added GCP to stack Oct 2026
Added External Secrets to stack Oct 2026
New location: Germany Sep 2026
Added Motion Planning to stack Sep 2026
Added Computer Vision to stack Sep 2026
Added TCP/IP to stack Sep 2026

Offices

Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
2
Hiring now
2
Countries
2
Busiest office
Munich
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Munich Germany
HQ
Impressum
18 open roles 18 posted in 90 days 11% engineering 200-500 est. staff
hires for Finance, Industrial Engineering, Marketing
seen since Feb 2026 company site, job postings
Austin United States
Plant / site
Collaborate & grow
7 open roles 4 posted in 90 days 14% engineering 50-200 est. staff
hires for Sales, Robotics, Product
404 W Powell Ln C401, Austin, TX 78753
seen since Feb 2026 company site, job postings

Jobs

≈ $52k – $116k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • PhD • Munich
Python
Physical AI
DevOps
Terraform
GCP
GitLab CI
CI/CD
GitOps
Git
AWS
Kubernetes
Sealed Secrets
External Secrets
Amazon EKS
Amazon EC2
GitLab
Amazon S3
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≈ $91k – $155k per year (Estimated) • Hybrid • Full-Time • 5+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Munich
Physical AI
Apply
≈ $101k – $243k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Austin
Python
Physical AI
Apply
≈ $86k – $187k per year (Estimated) • Remote (Europe) • Full-Time
Python
TypeScript
Model Context Protocol
Prompt Engineering
Function Calling
AI Agents
LLM
RAG
Human-in-the-Loop
Structured Outputs
Context Engineering
LLM Guardrails
Agentic Workflows
Tool Use
Physical AI
Mobile
Clean Architecture
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≈ $123k – $242k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 3+ years exp • Austin
Python
C++
Computer Vision
Physical AI
Robotics
ROS
ROS2
Motion Planning
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≈ $123k – $224k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • 7+ years exp • Bachelor's Degree • Austin
Physical AI
Apply
≈ $60k – $145k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Munich
Fine-tuning
Physical AI
Apply
≈ $94k – $176k per year (Estimated) • In office • Full-Time • Munich
Physical AI
Apply

Financials

Total raised
$143M
Latest round
Grant
Funding rounds
4
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Grant 2026 $300k Details
Series C 2026 $100M Details
Venture - Series Unknown 2024 $42.5M Details
Grant 2022 $194k Details