Sereact has raised a $110 million Series B round led by Headline, with participation from Bullhound Capital, Daphni, and Felix Capital. Existing investors Air Street Capital, Creandum, and Point Nine also reinvested. The funding will accelerate the rollout of Cortex 2, the company's next-generation robotic 'brain' that integrates a world model with its vision-language-action (VLA) architecture, and support entry into the US market with a new Boston office.
Key takeaways
- Cortex 2 runs possible actions against a learned physics model, anticipating outcomes before moving, enabling tasks that require contact sensitivity—such as assembling components under tension or placing windshields without scratching.
- More than 200 Sereact systems are live across Europe, completing over 1 billion real production picks for customers including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, PepsiCo, and Austrian Post.
- The system achieves one remote intervention per approximately 53,000 picks, a performance metric that differentiates it from competitors relying on simulated data.
- The company plans to open its first US office in Boston this summer and hire local commercial, application, and engineering staff.
CEO Ralf Gulde emphasized the importance of real-world data: “We bet early that you can’t build real robotics AI in a lab. You build it with a data flywheel fed by real deployments.” CTO Marc Tuscher added that the model runs on any robot—single arms, dual arms, humanoids, fixed cells—positioning hardware as a commodity while the model remains the core differentiator.
Source: Robotics & Automation News (roboticsandautomationnews.com) · Published 2026-04-27 · “Sereact raises $110 million investment to advance its ‘world model’ for robotics and AI”