Maven Robotics, a California-based startup developing general-purpose robots for industrial work, said on Thursday it raised $100 million in Series A funding to expand its logistics and manufacturing platform.
The round included RoboStrategy, LocalGlobe, Vine Ventures and XTX Ventures, among others. Maven will use the proceeds to scale deployments and advance its system as it moves beyond palletizing and tote handling into broader industrial tasks.
The company cited U.S. labor shortages expected to worsen as demand grows. It says its platform combines hardware, software and AI across robot, fleet and factory levels, and connects deployment data through a Maven network designed to share learning across systems. It targets industrial applications requiring reliable performance over multiple shifts.
CEO Hamza Derbas, who founded Maven in 2024 with his brother Khalid, said autonomous labor could create “infinitely elastic industrial capacity.”
Maven started with mixed-case palletizing and tote handling, a market it values at $80 billion, and is expanding into more complex material handling and assembly workflows that it says could address a market above $1 trillion. Its robots are already deployed with a Fortune 250 consumer packaged goods company, working autonomously across multiple shifts daily.
Maven expects its systems to log more than 100,000 hours of autonomous real-world operation by end-2026 and over 1 million hours by end-2027, using the data to improve performance.
The funding comes as robotics investment keeps rising despite limited large-scale industrial deployment. Global venture capital investment in robotics reached more than $18.8 billion in the first half of 2026, Maven cited.
