Dresden\/ Berlin \u2014 The Series C finan\u00adcing of Dres\u00adden-based robo\u00adtics soft\u00adware company Wandel\u00adbots has a total volume of $84 million. This brings Wandel\u00adbots\u2019 total funding to $123 million. The New York-based venture capi\u00adtal and private equity firm Insight Part\u00adners, which holds stakes in compa\u00adnies such as Blin\u00adkist, N26, HelloFresh, BlaB\u00adla\u00adCar, Twit\u00adter and Shop\u00adify, has joined as a new inves\u00adtor. In addi\u00adtion, exis\u00adting inves\u00adtors 83North, Micro\u00adsoft, Next47, Paua, Atlan\u00adtic Labs and EQT also parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adted in the finan\u00adcing round. \u2014 A YPOG team co-led by Benja\u00admin Ullrich and Emma Peters provi\u00added compre\u00adhen\u00adsive legal advice to Wandel\u00adbots on its latest finan\u00adcing round.<\/p>\n
The no-code approach of Wandel\u00adbots allows appli\u00adca\u00adtion experts to teach their robots inde\u00adpendently without having to have programming know\u00adledge. An initial product, Wandel\u00adbots Teaching, is based on agno\u00adstic soft\u00adware with an easy-to-use inter\u00adface that works the same for every robot \u2014 regard\u00adless of manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adrer or appli\u00adca\u00adtion. Wandel\u00adbots Teaching enables compa\u00adnies of all sizes to advance their auto\u00adma\u00adtion with indus\u00adtrial robots.<\/p>\n
The solu\u00adtion is expec\u00adted to be used in all robots world\u00adwide in the near future and will be available for every poten\u00adtial use case. To this end, the robo\u00adtics soft\u00adware company is inves\u00adt\u00ading in acce\u00adle\u00adra\u00adted product deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment. In addi\u00adtion to buil\u00adding new go-to-market orga\u00adniza\u00adti\u00adons in North America and Asia, Wandel\u00adbots is also aiming for global expan\u00adsion. As a next step, Wandel\u00adbots plans to expand and open up its robo\u00adtics soft\u00adware plat\u00adform. Provi\u00adders of auto\u00adma\u00adtion solu\u00adti\u00adons and soft\u00adware deve\u00adlo\u00adpers can then use the tech\u00adno\u00adlogy to deve\u00adlop their own solu\u00adti\u00adons in the shor\u00adtest possi\u00adble time without being tied to a speci\u00adfic manufacturer.<\/p>\n
Consul\u00adtant Wandel\u00adbots: YPOG About Wandel\u00adbots About Insight Partners About YPOG<\/strong> Dresden\/ Berlin \u2014 The Series C finan\u00adcing of Dres\u00ad\u00adden-based robo\u00adtics soft\u00adware company Wandel\u00adbots has a total volume of $84 million. This brings Wandel\u00adbots\u2019 total funding to $123 million. The New York-based venture capi\u00adtal and private equity firm Insight Part\u00adners, which holds stakes in compa\u00adnies such as Blin\u00adkist, N26, HelloFresh, BlaB\u00adla\u00adCar, Twit\u00adter and Shop\u00adify, has joined [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1365,1366,1367,1368,1369,1373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-private-equity-en","category-news-en","category-lawyers-tax-advisors-auditors-en","category-lawyers-tax-consultants-auditors","category-investors","category-venture-capital-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nDr. Benja\u00admin Ullrich (Co-Lead, Corporate\/Transactions), Partner
\nEmma Peters (Co-Lead, Corporate\/Transactions), Senior Associate
\nDr. Bene\u00addikt Fl\u00f6ter (IP\/IT), Asso\u00adcia\u00adted Partner<\/p>\n
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\nWandel\u00adbots belie\u00adves that the world will be a better place if people can focus on their crea\u00adti\u00advity and hand over mono\u00adto\u00adnous work to robots. \u2018Robots for the people\u2019 \u2014 that is the company\u2019s motto. It repres\u00adents the mission to empower every human to work with robots. For this, Wandel\u00adbots offers the simp\u00adlest solu\u00adtion for robot programming \u2018Wandel\u00adbots Teaching\u2019 and an over\u00adar\u00adching deve\u00adlo\u00adper plat\u00adform for robo\u00adtics. Curr\u00adently, robots from Univer\u00adsal Robots & Yaskawa are being used with Wandel\u00adbots tech\u00adno\u00adlogy at compa\u00adnies such as BMW, Bayer, VW, Fraun\u00adho\u00adfer, Schaeff\u00adler, Rotop and Vitesco. Wandel\u00adbots has part\u00adner\u00adships with leading OT system inte\u00adgra\u00adtors in Europe such as Gibas, Alumo\u00adtion, Heiden\u00adbluth and Sojka. Wandel\u00adbots employs more than 140 people from 17 count\u00adries \u2014 its head\u00adquar\u00adters are in Dres\u00adden, Germany.<\/p>\n
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\nInsight Part\u00adners is a leading global venture capi\u00adtal and private equity firm that invests in high-growth tech\u00adno\u00adlogy and soft\u00adware scale-up compa\u00adnies driving trans\u00adfor\u00adma\u00adtive change in their indus\u00adtries. Insight Part\u00adners, foun\u00added in 2005, has inves\u00adted in more than 400 compa\u00adnies world\u00adwide and has recei\u00adved more than $30 billion in capi\u00adtal commit\u00adments through a number of funds. Insigh\u00adt\u2019s mission is to find, fund and successfully part\u00adner with visio\u00adnary leaders by provi\u00adding them with prac\u00adti\u00adcal, real-world soft\u00adware exper\u00adtise to drive their long-term success. Through its people and port\u00adfo\u00adlio, Insight fosters a culture based on the belief that ScaleUp compa\u00adnies and growth create oppor\u00adtu\u00adni\u00adties for all.<\/p>\n
\nYPOG is a specia\u00adlist tax and commer\u00adcial law firm, opera\u00adting in the core areas of corpo\u00adrate, funds, liti\u00adga\u00adtion, tax, tran\u00adsac\u00adtions, IP\/IT and nota\u00adrial services. The YPOG team advi\u00adses a wide variety of clients. These include emer\u00adging tech\u00adno\u00adlogy compa\u00adnies and family-run medium-sized enter\u00adpri\u00adses as well as corpo\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons and private equity\/venture capi\u00adtal funds. YPOG is one of the leading addres\u00adses for venture capi\u00adtal, private equity and fund struc\u00adtu\u00adring in Germany. The firm and its part\u00adners are natio\u00adnally and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnally ranked by JUVE, Best Lawy\u00aders, Legal 500, Focus, and Cham\u00adbers and Part\u00adners. www.ypog.law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"