Munich \u2014 fruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics has raised \u20ac23 million in new capi\u00adtal in a Series B finan\u00adcing round. For the first time, inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnally renow\u00adned venture capi\u00adtal firms Capri\u00adcorn Part\u00adners and KOMPAS, as well as high- and deep-tech invest\u00adment firm XAI tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies, are inves\u00adt\u00ading in the pioneer of intel\u00adli\u00adgent robo\u00adtics and auto\u00adma\u00adtion solu\u00adti\u00adons for busi\u00adnesses of all sizes. Rene\u00adwed confi\u00addence is also expres\u00adsed by the previous VCs: UVC Part\u00adners, Matter\u00adwave Ventures, CNB Capi\u00adtal, the family office Pecon and the btov private inves\u00adtor network are also parti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adting in the finan\u00adcing round. The capi\u00adtal will be used to acce\u00adle\u00adrate product inno\u00adva\u00adtion, sales and marke\u00adting, and inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnal expansion.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the closing of our Series B finan\u00adcing, we are once again a big step closer to our goal of making robo\u00adtics and auto\u00adma\u00adtion solu\u00adti\u00adons acces\u00adsi\u00adble to a broad mass. We see that the demand for high-quality and easy-to-use robots in the market is conti\u00adnuously incre\u00adasing. Ther\u00ade\u00adfore, we will use the new capi\u00adtal prima\u00adrily to serve the demand for our robo\u00adtics and auto\u00adma\u00adtion solu\u00adti\u00adons as well as digi\u00adtal products in the Euro\u00adpean market\u201d, says Jens Rieg\u00adger CEO and co-foun\u00adder of fruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics. The company is curr\u00adently active in Germany, Austria, Switz\u00ader\u00adland and Italy. By the end of 2023, fruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics aims to open up a large part of the Euro\u00adpean markets.<\/p>\n
Central to fruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics\u2019 success are the intel\u00adli\u00adgent robo\u00adtics solu\u00adti\u00adons based around the \u201cDigi\u00adtal Robot\u201d HORST, which provide compa\u00adnies of all sizes with access to indus\u00adtrial, highly produc\u00adtive auto\u00adma\u00adtion and digi\u00adta\u00adliza\u00adtion. Even small and medium-sized compa\u00adnies without much expe\u00adri\u00adence can get star\u00adted easily and quickly. The entry barriers are low \u2014 low invest\u00adment costs, fast imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion, intui\u00adtive programming and high perfor\u00admance meet the demand. Hard\u00adware, soft\u00adware, connec\u00adti\u00advity and services are offe\u00adred in an easy-to-use end-to-end solution.<\/p>\n
Three years after its market launch, fruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics is alre\u00adady auto\u00adma\u00adting seve\u00adral hundred diffe\u00adrent appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons in 29 indus\u00adtries. The network of part\u00adner compa\u00adnies in the DACH region and in Italy has grown to more than 60 parti\u00adci\u00adpants and is being succes\u00adsi\u00advely expan\u00added. Today, the company employs more than 100 people and will conti\u00adnue to create attrac\u00adtive jobs at its sites in Cons\u00adtance and Villin\u00adgen through further growth.<\/p>\n
Benja\u00admin Erhart, Gene\u00adral Part\u00adner at UVC Part\u00adners (Photo)<\/strong> and Lead Inves\u00adtor at fruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics says: \u201cfruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics addres\u00adses a major pain of our economy: scalable auto\u00adma\u00adtion in manu\u00adfac\u00adtu\u00adring SMEs. It is a key to address the criti\u00adcal situa\u00adtion of deli\u00advery times, growing demand and (again) incre\u00adasingly Europe-centric produc\u00adtion in a timely manner. Since our initial invest\u00adment in 2021, the fruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics team has shown that deep soft\u00adware exper\u00adtise has crea\u00adted an offe\u00adring that perfectly meets the needs of their custo\u00admers on a mass scale.\u201d<\/p>\n About fruit\u00adcore robotics About UVC Partners<\/strong> Munich \u2014 fruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics has raised \u20ac23 million in new capi\u00adtal in a Series B finan\u00adcing round. For the first time, inter\u00adna\u00adtio\u00adnally renow\u00adned venture capi\u00adtal firms Capri\u00adcorn Part\u00adners and KOMPAS, as well as high- and deep-tech invest\u00adment firm XAI tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies, are inves\u00adt\u00ading in the pioneer of intel\u00adli\u00adgent robo\u00adtics and auto\u00adma\u00adtion solu\u00adti\u00adons for busi\u00adnesses of all [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47353,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[886,1364,1366,1368,1369,1373],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-en","category-featured-en","category-news-en","category-lawyers-tax-consultants-auditors","category-investors","category-venture-capital-en"],"yoast_head":"\n
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\nfruit\u00adcore robo\u00adtics GmbH, based in Cons\u00adtance, Germany, specia\u00adli\u00adzes in the deve\u00adlo\u00adp\u00adment, produc\u00adtion and marke\u00adting of tech\u00adni\u00adcally outstan\u00adding and easy-to-use \u201cdigi\u00adtal robots\u201d. The deep-tech company\u2019s focus is on making robo\u00adtic indus\u00adtrial auto\u00adma\u00adtion available to the masses. The modu\u00adlar product port\u00adfo\u00adlio includes the \u201cDigi\u00adtal Robots\u201d HORST, the intui\u00adtive soft\u00adware horstFX, the Indus\u00adtrial IoT plat\u00adform horstCOSMOS.com and intel\u00adli\u00adgent features for camera reco\u00adgni\u00adtion. The robots are Made in Germany, from the hard\u00adware to the soft\u00adware. In addi\u00adtion to robots, the company also offers ready-made solu\u00adti\u00adons and soft\u00adware packa\u00adges for plug & play imple\u00admen\u00adta\u00adtion of complete applications.<\/p>\n
\nUVC Part\u00adners is a Munich and Berlin-based early-stage venture capi\u00adtal firm inves\u00adt\u00ading in Euro\u00adpean B2B start-ups in the fields of enter\u00adprise soft\u00adware, indus\u00adtrial tech\u00adno\u00adlo\u00adgies and mobi\u00adlity. The fund gene\u00adrally invests between \u20ac0.5 and \u20ac10 million at the outset and up to \u20ac30 million in total per company. The port\u00adfo\u00adlio compa\u00adnies bene\u00adfit from the exten\u00adsive invest\u00adment and exit expe\u00adri\u00adence of the manage\u00adment team as well as from the close coope\u00adra\u00adtion with Unter\u00adneh\u00admer\u00adTUM, Euro\u00adpe\u2019s leading inno\u00adva\u00adtion and start-up center. With over 350 employees and more than 100 indus\u00adtry part\u00adners, Unter\u00adneh\u00admer\u00adTUM can draw on many years of expe\u00adri\u00adence in buil\u00adding young compa\u00adnies. This colla\u00adbo\u00adra\u00adtion gives UVC Part\u00adners the oppor\u00adtu\u00adnity to provide start\u00adups with unique access to talent, indus\u00adtry clients and other finan\u00adcial partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"