microagi
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About
microagi is a Munich-based robotics-deployment company building software to move factory robots from demonstrations into production, and to train the next generation of humanoid robots on real-world work 12. The company’s core platform, Atlas, captures factory data, expands it in simulation and fine-tunes models for plant-specific tasks; a separate data arm called Shift pays roughly 20,000 people across 15 countries to film themselves performing physical work, generating the training data microagi uses to teach robots factory and household tasks 12. On 2026-07-16 microagi announced a $55M seed round — reported as the largest seed round in German startup history — led by Hummingbird with participation from Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global and Redalpine 1234. The company was founded roughly ten months earlier by former Formula 1 engineers from Red Bull Racing and Mercedes-AMG Petronas, together with a WhatsApp entrepreneur and an Alan Turing Institute researcher 12.
Funding History
| Date | Round | Amount | Lead | Co-investors |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-16 | Seed | $55M | Hummingbird | Northzone, LocalGlobe, Village Global, Redalpine 1234 |
What Investors Say
No independently sourced investor quotes about this round located at press time.
What Founders Say
“In the last 60 years, we’ve offshored a lot to the east, so there are many skills we never mastered in Europe. We’ve fallen behind in our ability to do things in-house, and we’ve lost price-competitiveness.”
— Bercan Kilic, Co-Founder & CEO, microagi, on the state of European manufacturing 1
“It’s one-billionth of what Europe needs.”
— Bercan Kilic, Co-Founder & CEO, microagi, on the size of the round 1
“We put our engineers on site with each customer, and the system learns from their real operations and feeds that back into the next run.”
— Nico Nussbaum, Co-Founder & CTO, microagi, on the training approach 1
Sources
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“Munich robotics startup microagi raises $55m, Germany’s largest ever seed round,” Sifted, July 16, 2026. Accessed July 19, 2026. https://sifted.eu/articles/munich-robotics-startup-microagi-raises-55m-germanys-largest-ever-seed-round↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
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“An F1 aerodynamicist just raised $55m to teach factory robots, using footage of people doing chores,” The Next Web, July 16, 2026. Accessed July 19, 2026. https://thenextweb.com/news/microagi-55m-seed-robot-training-data-shift↩↩↩↩↩
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“Germany’s microagi Raises $55M in Seed Round Funding to Develop Industrial Robotics Deployment Platform,” The AI Insider, July 16, 2026. Accessed July 19, 2026. https://theaiinsider.tech/2026/07/16/germanys-microagi-raises-55m-in-seed-round-funding-to-develop-industrial-robotics-deployment-platform/↩↩
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“microagi Raises $55M in Seed Funding,” FinSMEs, July 16, 2026. Accessed July 19, 2026. https://www.finsmes.com/2026/07/microagi-raises-55m-in-seed-funding.html↩↩