Theker, the Spanish startup building AI-powered robots for industrial settings, has raised an €85m Series A.
The round was led by US investor CRV and included participation from South Korean manufacturing giant Samsung and French luxury retail group LVMH.
Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya and Bright Pixel Capital also backed the fundraise, in addition to historical investors including Spanish retailer Inditex and VCs Kfund and Kibo Ventures.
It comes less than a year after Theker bagged €18m, one of the largest ever seed rounds raised in Spain.
The robotics sector is heating up in Europe, with startups in the space raising €1.5bn in 2025, according to Sifted data, twice as much as the previous year (€761m). Earlier this week, German startup Neura Robotics raised a blockbuster $1.4bn Series C, the largest round ever raised by a private company in the sector in Europe.
Barcelona, where Theker is HQ’d, is emerging as a hotspot for European robotics startups, with four deals in the space tracked by Sifted since the start of 2025.
What does Theker do?
Industrial environments are characterised by changing and unpredictable conditions, a major obstacle to the deployment of conventional robots, which are typically programmed for pre-defined, specific tasks.
Theker, which launched in 2022, says it has developed robots combining deep learning and computer vision that can learn in real-time and adapt to changing environments to carry out tasks without the need for reprogramming.
The systems are suited to industrial settings in fields like waste management, logistics, food, manufacturing and retail. Theker says it is already deploying its robots in real-world production environments; the startup is working with Inditex, for instance, to automate tasks in the retailer’s logistics operations.
“We didn’t build Theker to run pilots,” said cofounder Carla Gómez Cano in a statement. “We built it to ship robots that work the day they arrive and continue improving every day after.”
She added: “This round accelerates a vision we’ve been building toward from day one: making intelligent, adaptable robotics practical for real industrial operations at global scale.”
The Series A funding will help the company accelerate robotic deployments with industrial partners, improve the technology and expand the size of the team with a focus on software, electronics, mechanical engineering and deployments.
