RobCo closes Series C financing round for USD 100 million

Berlin — YPOG has advi­sed Lingotto, an invest­ment manage­ment company owned by Exor N.V., on the Series C finan­cing round of the Munich-based robo­tics company RobCo. The finan­cing round has a volume of USD 100 million and was jointly led by Lightspeed Venture Part­ners and Lingotto Inno­va­tion. Further inves­tors are Sequoia Capi­tal, Green­field Part­ners, Kind­red Capi­tal, Leit­mo­tif, Vintage IP and The Fried­kin Group. 

RobCo deve­lops a Physi­­cal-AI-based plat­form for auto­no­mous indus­trial robo­tics and enables the use of self-lear­­ning robots directly in real produc­tion envi­ron­ments. By combi­ning percep­tion, motion plan­ning and lear­ning systems, RobCo redu­ces the comple­xity of indus­trial auto­ma­tion and enables the gradual intro­duc­tion of auto­no­mous proces­ses. The company intends to use the fresh capi­tal to further advance its tech­no­lo­gi­cal road­map, expand its use in compa­nies and expand its presence on the US market. 

RobCo was foun­ded in Munich in 2020 and uses physi­cal AI to enable incre­asingly auto­no­mous robo­tics solu­ti­ons in real produc­tion envi­ron­ments. By combi­ning percep­tion, motion plan­ning and self-lear­­ning methods, the RobCo plat­form is desi­gned to reduce fric­tion between today’s proces­ses and end-to-end auto­ma­tion. This allows teams to focus less on setting up and main­tai­ning systems and more on their core proces­ses and value-adding tasks. 

Lingotto Inno­va­tion is a multi-stage, sector agno­stic growth stra­tegy that invests from venture capi­tal to public markets, lever­aging close ties to indus­try and acade­mia. Led by James Ander­son (Mana­ging Part­ner & CIO) and Morgan Samet (Mana­ging Part­ner & Co-Head), the stra­tegy aims to iden­tify rare struc­tu­ral winners and support compa­nies that drive inno­va­tion through expo­nen­tial tech­no­lo­gies and busi­ness models. The invest­ment in RobCo under­lines the stra­te­gic focus of the Lingotto Inno­va­tion Stra­tegy on physi­cal AI, indus­trial auto­ma­tion and scalable deep tech plat­forms with global appli­ca­tion potential. 

“RobCo is an exam­ple of the next stage in the deve­lo­p­ment of indus­trial auto­ma­tion, in which physi­cal AI is chan­ging real produc­tion proces­ses for the long term. Lingotto Inno­va­tion pursues a clear, long-term invest­ment approach in precis­ely such tech­­no­­logy-driven plat­forms. We are plea­sed to have accom­pa­nied Lingotto Inno­va­tion in this signi­fi­cant finan­cing round,” says Dr. Benja­min Ullrich, Co-Mana­­ging Part­ner at YPOG.

YPOG recently advi­sed Lingotto with a team led by Dr. Benja­min Ullrich on its invest­ment in Trade Repu­blic Bank GmbH as part of a secon­dary round.

Team
Dr. Benja­min Ullrich(Lead, Tran­sac­tions), Part­ner, Berlin
Stefan Rich­ter(Tax), Part­ner, Hamburg
Dr. Bene­dikt Flöter(IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Part­ner, Berlin
Dr. Emma Peters(Tran­sac­tions), Asso­cia­ted Part­ner, Berlin
Char­lotte Petrasch(IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Silke Ricken(Corpo­rate), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Richard Appfel (Corpo­rate), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Ninetta Klein­dienst(Tax), Asso­ciate, Munich

About Lingotto

Lingotto Invest­ment Manage­ment LLP is an inde­pen­dent invest­ment manage­ment firm head­quar­te­red in London and owned by Exor N.V., one of Euro­pe’s largest diver­si­fied invest­ment compa­nies. Foun­ded in May 2023, Lingotto aims to provide its Limi­ted Part­ners with attrac­tive long-term returns. The company stri­ves to constantly chall­enge conven­tio­nal thin­king in order to create some­thing extra­or­di­nary for the future. Assets under manage­ment (AUM) are appro­xi­m­ately $9.8 billion and the firm employs over 50 invest­ment and busi­ness profes­sio­nals in its London and New York offices¹.
¹ As of Septem­ber 30, 2025, inclu­ding uncal­led capi­tal commitments. 

About YPOG

YPOG stands for You + Part­ners of Game­ch­an­gers and forward-looking tax and legal advice. The firm advi­ses compa­nies focu­sed on future tech­no­lo­gies with the aim of using change as an oppor­tu­nity and jointly crea­ting opti­mal solu­ti­ons. The YPOG team offers compre­hen­sive exper­tise in the areas of Funds, Tax, Tran­sac­tions, Corpo­rate, Banking, Regu­la­tory + Finance, IP/IT/Data Protec­tion, Liti­ga­tion as well as Corpo­rate Crime + Compli­ance + Inves­ti­ga­ti­ons. YPOG is one of the leading addres­ses in Germany for venture capi­tal, private equity, fund struc­tu­ring and appli­ca­ti­ons of distri­bu­ted ledger tech­no­logy (DLT) in finan­cial services. The firm and its part­ners are regu­larly reco­gni­zed by renow­ned publi­ca­ti­ons such as JUVE, Best Lawy­ers, Cham­bers and Part­ners, Leaders League and Legal 500. YPOG employs more than 180 expe­ri­en­ced lawy­ers, tax advi­sors and tax specia­lists as well as a notary in its offices in Berlin, Hamburg, Colo­gne, Munich, Cambridge and London. — www.ypog.com