Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has raised a $30m pre-seed round from Redalpine, Notion Capital and Firstminute Capital to take on one the biggest bottlenecks in robotics.
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October 22, 2026
Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch back Zurich robotics startup in $30m pre-seed
Enact Intelligence, cofounded by a 1X and Physical Intelligence alum, has raised Switzerland’s largest ever pre-seed round
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