20 most promising early-stage startups
Sifted score
8.48-Gideon
Building flexible autonomous mobile robots
- Strong investor(s)
- Serial founder(s)
Year founded
2017
HQ
Zagreb, Croatia
Latest round
Series A
€28.2m / Jun 2021Total funding
€32.7m
Sifted score
8.28-Nomagic
Automated warehouse robots for e-commerce
- Strong investor(s)
- Hiring
Year founded
2017
HQ
Warsaw, Poland
Latest round
Series A
€20m / May 2022Total funding
€27.8m
Sifted score
7.78-Energy Robotics
Automated inspection robots for industrial facilities
- Strong investor(s)
- Serial founder(s)
- Hiring
Year founded
2019
HQ
Darmstadt, Germany
Latest round
Grant
€2.5m / Oct 2022Total funding
€4.5m
Sifted score
7.07-Daedalus
Platform for companies to order parts manufactured by robots
- Strong investor(s)
- Hiring
Year founded
2019
HQ
Karlsruhe, Germany
Latest round
Seed
€5.5m / Feb 2023Total funding
€17.9m
Sifted score
6.91-Enchanted Tools
Developer of "social logistics" robots
- Serial founder(s)
- Hiring
Year founded
2021
HQ
Paris, France
Latest round
Seed
€15m / Feb 2022Total funding
€15m
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