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Funding and backers

Total raised
$130.5M
3 rounds on record
Latest round
$110M
Venture round · Jan 2026 · 8 mo ago
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Backers
2
Real Ventures, White Star Capital
The money's age
Fresh money
8 months since the last round · not hiring
Momentum
35/100
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 22 Partnership Vention and FANUC America Join Forces to Bring Industrial Robots to Vention · CNWGroup Jun 22 Partnership Vention and Teradyne Robotics Collaborate on Digital Twin Creation Platform Optimized for UR Robotic Cells · CNWGroup Mar 16 Launched Vention Debuts Rapid Operator AI at NVIDIA GTC 2026, Delivering a Productized Physical AI Solution for Autonomous Bin Picking · marketwatch.com Jan 27 Raised a round Venture round $110M · CNWGroup Jul 14, 2025 Launched Vention Launches Next-Generation Modular Palletizer to Power its End-of-Line Automation Solutions · CNWGroup May 6, 2025 Launched Vention Launches Online Design Certification to Close Talent Gap and Train the Next Generation of Automation Experts · CNWGroup Mar 18, 2025 Launched Vention Unveils AI-Powered Bin Picking that Transforms Robots into Reliable, Autonomous Operators -- Live at NVIDIA GTC 2025 · PRNewswire Sep 10, 2024 Partnership Vention and ABB collaborate to bring cobot automation to small and medium manufacturers · PRNewswire Sep 10, 2024 Launched Vention launches MachineMotion AI, an AI-enabled automation controller for robotics and industrial applications · PRNewswire May 1, 2024 Launched Vention Launches New Cloud-Robotics and AI Capabilities to Accelerate the Design and Deployment of Robot Cells · CNWGroup Nov 7, 2019 Partnership Vention partners with SMC to enable digital engineering of pneumatic equipment · PRNewswire Jan 15, 2019 Raised a round Series A $17M · led by Bain Capital Ventures · BetaKit Jan 18, 2018 Raised a round Seed $3.5M · SolidSmack 2016 Founded
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Web presence
top 6%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Funding rounds
RoundDateAmountInvestorsSource
Venture round Jan 2026 $110M Investissement Québec, Desjardins, Fidelity Investments Canada ULC, NVIDIA CNWGroup
Series A Jan 2019 $17M Bain Capital Ventures lead BetaKit
Seed Jan 2018 $3.5M — SolidSmack
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Overview

Vention is a Canadian technology company founded in 2016 and based in Montreal. Its cloud platform lets engineers design and order industrial automation equipment. The service is used by manufacturers worldwide.

News

Press release PRNewswire 4 months ago
"The Floor Runs on Us": Vention Powers the Future of Software-Defined Automation at Automate 2026
Under the theme "The Floor Runs on Us," Vention showcases software-defined automation through integrated hardware, software, motion control, cloud...
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Press release CNWGroup 4 months ago
Vention and Teradyne Robotics Collaborate on Digital Twin Creation Platform Optimized for UR Robotic Cells
Strategic collaboration between Vention and Teradyne Robotics accelerates the design and deployment of robot cells by leveraging Vention
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Press release CNWGroup 7 months ago
Vention Debuts Rapid Operator AI at NVIDIA GTC 2026, Delivering a Productized Physical AI Solution for Autonomous Bin Picking
Built for unstructured, deep bin-picking operations, Rapid Operator AI delivers a turnkey system for deploying physical AI in manufacturing environments...
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Press release CNWGroup 8 months ago
Vention Introduces "One-Stop Shop" End-of-Line Packaging Automation, From Case Packing to Palletizing
Vention introduces a platform-powered "one-stop-shop" end-of-line packaging solution, through its unified hardware and software manufacturing automation...
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Press release CNWGroup 8 months ago
Vention Introduces GRIIP: A Generalized Physical AI Pipeline for Manufacturing Automation
Vention launches GRIIP (Generalized Robotic Industrial Intelligence Pipeline), a new end-to-end physical AI pipeline for industrial automation The generalized...
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News Pulse 2.0 9 months ago
Vention: $110 Million Raised To Scale Physical AI And Expand Access to Industrial Automation
Vention announced it has raised $110 million in new financing (C$150 million) to accelerate its push into what it calls Physical AI and to help manufacturers automate more quickly and with less complexity. The company said the round included participation
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Press release CNWGroup 9 months ago
Vention Raises $110M USD ($150M CAD) to Accelerate Physical AI Deployment Across Global Manufacturing
Vention raised $110M USD, with participation from Investissement Québec, Desjardins Capital, Fidelity Investments Canada ULC, NVentures, and other financial...
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Offices

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Montreal Canada
HQ
Montreal
4767 Dagenais Street
company site
Berlin Germany
Regional office
Berlin
Karl-Marx-Allee 3, 10178, Berlin, Germany
company site

Financials

Total raised
$130.5M
Latest round
Venture - Series Unknown
Funding rounds
3
Funding rounds
Round Announced Amount
Venture - Series Unknown 2026 $110M Details
Series A 2019 $17M Details
Seed 2018 $3.5M Details