microagi, a Munich robotics startup founded by former Red Bull Racing and Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 engineers, has raised $55 million in the largest seed round in German history, led by Hummingbird.
Its platform, Atlas, fine-tunes AI models on a factory’s own operational data so robots clear the “last mile” gap between an impressive demo and reliable, unsupervised work on the line.
The raise lands as Europe’s robot deficit widens: the continent installed 85,000 factory robots in 2024 versus China’s 295,000, even as nearly 40 million EU workers are over 55 and heading toward retirement
Munich-based robotics startup microagi has raised $55 million in what it says is the largest seed round in German history, led by Hummingbird Ventures, with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global, and redalpine, just 10 months after the company was founded.
The raise is unusual not just for its size but for the team behind it. microagi was built around 5 cofounders whose backgrounds span the width of a very odd Venn diagram: Bercan Kilic, a former aerodynamics engineer at Red Bull Racing and ex-professional esports player; Yoan Iliev, formerly of Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1; Anton Poletaev, a former researcher at the Alan Turing Institute; Nico Nussbaum, an engineer from RWTH Aachen; and Artjem Weissbeck, co-founder of WhatsApp commerce platform Charles and Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe alumnus.
