According to a press release, ANYbotics has secured fresh investment of 60 million US dollars. With this, the spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich founded in 2016 has increased its total external financing to more than 130 million US dollars. The manufacturer of four-legged inspection robots powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) will now turn its attention to injecting extra impetus into its global scaling and expansion in the USA, in addition to boosting the growth of its global team.
This new financing round was led by the venture capital firms Qualcomm Ventures based in San Diego in the US State of California and Supernovainvest from Paris, with participation from TDK Ventures. Existing investors from Silicon Valley and Europe, including Walden Catalyst, NGP Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners, Swisscanto and Swisscom Ventures, were also involved in the process. “We are thrilled to have the backing of world-class investors as we accelerate our mission to transform industrial inspections through autonomous robotics”, comments Dr. Péter Fankhauser, co-founder and CEO of ANYbotics.
According to information from the company, ANYbotics is already displaying “unprecedented growth” on the back of major orders and partners such as BP, Equinor, Petrobras, Novelis and Outokumpu and is expanding globally. The opening of an office in Silicon Valley is being described as a recent milestone.
The global scaling efforts are additionally being supported by collaborations with companies such as AWS, NVIDIA, SAP, SLB, Equans and Siemens Energy. “ANYbotics is transforming industrial operations with innovative AI-powered robotics”, as Michel Glezer, Director of the investor Qualcomm Ventures Europe explains. This positions the company as a “leader in the robotics market”. ce/mm
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