Roman Holtz
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Robco's $100M Series C & Physical AI with Roman Holtz
About an hour after Bloomberg broke the story, Robco co-founder and CEO Roman Holtz confirms the $100M Series C co-led by Lightspeed and Lingotto Innovation alongside Sequoia Capital, Greenfield Partners, Kindred Capital and others. He outlines the autonomous manufacturing platform's mission to 'automate the ordinary' (roughly 200 people, ~500 deployed solutions), the NVIDIA and AWS physical AI fellowship after meeting Jensen Huang, the three pillars behind the raise — physical AI, US expansion, enterprise push — the TUM spin-out founding story, and the mismatch of six-week hardware and two-week software sprints run in-house from Munich.