Sereact has raised a $110 million Sequence B spherical led by Headline, with participation from Bullhound Capital, Daphni, and Felix Capital.
Current buyers Air Road Capital, Creandum (who led the corporate’s 2025 Sequence A spherical), and Level 9 as soon as once more invested in Sereact.
The spherical funds two priorities: scaling Cortex 2 and getting into the US. Sereact will open its first US workplace in Boston this summer season and rent business, software, and engineering employees regionally.
Cortex 2: the robotic mind that anticipates outcomes earlier than it strikes
At the moment’s Cortex sees and picks. Cortex 2 thinks first, then acts.
Cortex 2 augments a vision-language-action (VLA) with a world mannequin. It runs doable actions towards a realized mannequin of physics and object conduct, picks the one more than likely to work, and updates in actual time because the scene modifications.
World fashions are the subsequent frontier in AI, and most of that work is occurring in analysis labs on artificial information. Cortex 2 is the one skilled on greater than a billion picks of actual manufacturing.
The shift from reacting to reasoning is what takes Cortex out of the selecting bin and into the sort of work the place contact issues. Assembling a part below pressure. Inserting a windshield wiper with out scratching it.
Kitting elements that should land in precisely the best orientation for the subsequent station. That’s the subsequent market Sereact goes after, and Cortex 2 is the way it will get there.
US launch
American warehouses and producers need productized AI that works out of the field, not customized imaginative and prescient methods that take 1 / 4 to deploy. Cortex already works that manner; Cortex 2 extends the class.
Sereact confirmed the present era at Modex in Atlanta this month – single-arm selecting, dual-arm returns dealing with, and the Sereact Lens 3D notion system – and North American curiosity has grown steadily since.
Ralf Gulde, CEO and co-founder, says: “We wager early which you can’t construct actual robotics AI in a lab. You construct it with an information flywheel fed by actual deployments – transport into manufacturing, dwelling with the failures, and letting the mannequin be taught from what really occurs on the ground.
“The numbers present it labored. 200 methods. One billion picks. One intervention per 53,000. No one else is shut.”
Marc Tuscher, co-founder and CTO, says: “The robotic desires in latent house. We give it a type of creativeness – the power to anticipate how the world will reply earlier than it strikes.
“We don’t construct robots. We don’t promote companies. We ship one factor: the mannequin that runs on any robotic. Single arms, twin arms, humanoids, mounted cells – identical mind throughout all of it. {Hardware} is turning into a commodity. The mannequin isn’t.”
Sereact market match
Sereact builds AI for robots that work within the bodily world. Warehouses had been the primary deployment as a result of no different surroundings offers the identical mixture of information factors: billions of actual interactions, each object form conceivable, onerous throughput constraints, and penalties when the robotic will get it mistaken.
Each shift, throughout each buyer web site, Cortex learns from actual picks on actual objects in situations no simulator can reproduce. That information is what strikes the mannequin, and the mannequin strikes with the robotic: cell, humanoid, mounted cell – no matter comes subsequent.
Greater than 200 Sereact methods are already reside throughout Europe, making Sereact essentially the most deployed AI selecting robotic firm on this planet.
These methods, all operating the Cortex mind, have accomplished over 1 billion actual manufacturing picks for purchasers together with Lively Ants, Austrian Submit, BMW, bol., Daimler Truck, DeltiLog, Mercedes-Benz, Monta, MS Direct, PepsiCo and Rohlik Group.
One choose in roughly each 53,000 wants distant human assist. The whole lot else, the robotic handles by itself: that ratio is a essential differentiator.
Each choose Cortex does goes again into the mannequin. Opponents are elevating billions to coach on simulated information and lab demos.
Sereact has spent 5 years coaching on actual operations, at night time, at peak, on the messy objects that don’t seem like something the robotic has seen earlier than. It’s a niche that widens with each shift.
Investor sentiment
Trevor Neff, development accomplice at Headline, says: “The bodily AI alternative is among the largest we’ve seen in a era, and we consider it’s going to rewire world provide chains and manufacturing.
“Behind nice alternatives and nice corporations are nice founders, and Ralf and Marc are constructing into that chance the best manner: actual deployments, actual information, and a mannequin that compounds and will get higher with each single choose.
“Prospects love the product, which results in continued growth, solely accelerating the info flywheel – this is the reason we’re so excited to again Sereact.”
Bullhound Capital founding accomplice Per Roman says: “After a deluge of humanoid robotics corporations, my fellow Accomplice Alon Kuperman and I had been delighted to satisfy Ralf and Marc, the co-founders of Sereact, who’ve constructed an AI working system that seamlessly retrofits into the world’s huge fleet of business robots already in motion.”
Antoine Nussenbaum, co-founder and investor at Felix Capital, says: “We see Sereact as a brand new era European champion, combining deep industrial know-how with world-class AI and robotics expertise to sort out one of many hardest challenges in world provide chains.
“At its core is a strong, compounding information moat – the place each warehouse interplay makes the system smarter and tougher to duplicate. We’re proud to accomplice with the group and help their ambition to outline the class of bodily AI for the world’s largest retailers and wholesalers.”
