Darmstadt-based Energy Robotics nabs €2 million for its mobile inspection robots
Summary
In addition to European technology investor Earlybird, which has led first financing rounds in billion-dollar companies such as UiPath, N26 and Peak Games, further investors are participating: multi-supervisory board member Dr. Paul Achleitner, former CEO of Austrian oil company OMV Dr. Gerhard Roiss, and Martin Klässner, e-mobility expert and CEO of has-to-be GmbH. Business angel and serial entrepreneur, Andrej Henkler, known for his early investments in companies such as Palantir, is also among the new investors. Earlybird sees great potential in the Darmstadt-based startup: “The perfectly-coordinated founding team of Energy Robotics combines decades of experience and leading expertise in intelligent autonomous software for mobile robots with visionary entrepreneurship and a “doer” mentality,” explaines Dr. Andre Retterath, Principal at Earlybird. “The company is growing fast – despite its early stage, the team has already been able to win numerous pilot and license customers such as Shell, Dow Chemical, E.ON and Merck. Our goal is to offer customers our software in combination with the hardware they require, and the robot best suited to their specific use case.