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Viam Robotics introduced the shut of a $30 million Sequence A spherical led by Tiger International, with participation from returning investor Union Sq. Ventures, and Battery Ventures. The financing brings Viam’s complete funding to $42 million.

The corporate continues to be in stealth mode, though it has already employed greater than 36 workers (in accordance with its LinkedIn profile).

Right here’s what we do know in regards to the firm:

• It was based in 2020 by MongoDB, Inc. cofounder and longtime CTO Eliot Horowitz.
• The corporate is predicated in New York Metropolis.
• Viam is a {hardware} and language agnostic platform that enables builders to create, configure, and management any robotic from anyplace.
• The corporate is constructing a novel robotics platform that depends on standardized constructing blocks slightly than customized code to create, configure and management robots intuitively and shortly.
• They count on to develop a robotics resolution that works throughout industries to resolve difficult automation issues with software program.

“Since our Seed spherical, we’ve introduced on extraordinary expertise, constructed, examined, and launched our platform, and engaged with exterior events energized by the prospect of constructing robots simply and intuitively,” mentioned Horowitz.

Albert Wenger, Accomplice, USV, commented, “Robotics holds a profound promise to make our lives higher. Viam will make it dramatically simpler to convey new and extra highly effective robots to market. This can be a large alternative and I’m thrilled to be working with Eliot once more.”

You received’t discover a lot data but on the Viam web site aside from job alternatives: they’re actively hiring robotics and software program engineers. Probably the greatest locations to observe the corporate is on their Instagram feed.

Editors be aware: We’ve got talked to sources on the firm off the file, however can’t share something but. They’ve thrilling issues on their roadmap, and we’ll simply have to attend till later within the 12 months to study extra.