YPOG advises robotics startup Sereact on USD 110 million Series B investment

Berlin — YPOG provi­ded legal advice to Stut­t­­gart-based startup Seract on its Series B finan­cing round. The round has a total volume of USD 110 million and was led by Head­line. Other new inves­tors include Bull­hound Capi­tal, Daphni and Felix Capi­tal. Exis­ting inves­tors, inclu­ding Crean­dum, Point Nine and Air Street Capi­tal, parti­ci­pa­ted again. 

Sere­act was foun­ded by Dr. Ralf Gulde and Marc Tuscher in Stutt­gart and deve­lops AI models for robots that are used in the physi­cal world. The company does not build its own hard­ware, but supplies Cortex, an AI model that runs on a wide variety of robot plat­forms, whether one-armed, two-armed, huma­noid or statio­nary. The current Cortex 2 gene­ra­tion enables robots not only to react, but also to anti­ci­pate situa­tions and update them in real time. Sere­act is one of the worl­d’s most widely used provi­ders of AI picking robots, with over 200 systems in use in Europe and more than one billion produc­tion picks comple­ted. Its custo­mers include BMW, Daim­ler Truck, DHL, Merce­­des-Benz, PepsiCo and Austrian Post. 

The fresh capi­tal will be used to scale Cortex 2 and enter the US market. Sere­act plans to open its first US office in Boston and build up a local sales, appli­ca­tion and engi­nee­ring team. The next stra­te­gic thrust is the area of cont­act-based work, such as the precise assem­bly of compon­ents or the inser­tion of sensi­tive compon­ents without dama­ging them. 

Sere­act had alre­ady closed a Series A round led by Crean­dum in Janu­ary 2025, on which YPOG also advised.

Consul­tant Sere­act: YPOG

Dr. Benja­min Ullrich/ Photo © Ypog (Lead, Tran­sac­tions), Part­ner, Berlin
Dr. Bene­dikt Flöter (IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Part­ner, Berlin
Jörg Schr­ade (Tax), Part­ner, Munich
Anna Eick­meier (IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Asso­cia­ted Part­ner, Berlin
Dr. Emma Peters (Tran­sac­tions), Asso­cia­ted Part­ner, Berlin
Silke Ricken (Corpo­rate), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Char­lotte Petrasch (IP/IT/Data Protec­tion), Asso­ciate, Berlin
Elmar Traut­mann (Tran­sac­tions), Asso­ciate, Berlin

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