Collaborative Robotics
ACTIVECollaborative Robotics, Inc.
Robotics companyStartup
Cobotco.botCollaborative Robotics Inc.
American robotics startup from Seattle founded in 2022 by Brad Porter (ex-VP Robotics at Amazon, ex-CTO at Scale AI) and Steph Tryphonas. Builds the Proxie mobile humanoid robot for operations in hospitals, warehouses and manufacturing floors.
Founded2022
HQSeattle
Total funding$140000B
ValuationCobot does not publicly disclose its post-Series B valuation. Only the total funding raised is known: $140M.
Collaborative Robotics
Founded 2022 · Seattle, United StatesFounders
Brad Porter holds Computer Science degrees from MIT. Before founding Collaborative Robotics he was VP of Robotics at Amazon, where he deployed over 500,000 robots. He then served as CTO at Scale AI. He founded Collaborative Robotics in 2022 to build a robot that works alongside people without getting in the way.
Co-founded Collaborative Robotics together with Brad Porter (2022). Has been building the company from inception.
Domain of activity
3 areas · 4 technologies · 4 industriesWhat they do3Areas
- Mobile robots
- Embodied AI
- Autonomous systems
How they do it4Technologies
- Robotics
- Embodied AI
- Computer vision
- Foundation Models
Who for4Industries
- Healthcare
- Logistics & warehousing
- Industrial manufacturing
- Robotics
Global presence
HQ Seattle · 2 offices · 2 regionsUSANorth America
Scale & funding
founded 2022 · Series B2022founded
130+ employees (2026)employees
$140Mtotal funding
Series Blatest round
growthdevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
activestatus
$140M
total funding
3 · 2022–2024
SeedJune 2022$10M seed round raised in June 2022 (based on Brad Porter's statement in TechCrunch article dated July 26, 2023: "13 months back we had just raised a $10 million seed and had a vision for a new type of collaborative robot"). Investors in the seed round were not publicly disclosed in that article.
$10M
Series AJuly 2023Sequoia Capital, Mayo Clinic, Khosla Ventures$30M Series A round announced on July 26, 2023. Led by Sequoia Capital per TechCrunch. Cobot /team page also lists Mayo Clinic and Khosla Ventures as Series A participants. At time of round, headcount was 23.
$30M
Series BApril 2024General Catalyst, Bison Ventures, Industry Ventures, Lux Capital, Sequoia Capital, Mayo Clinic, Khosla Ventures$100M Series B round announced on April 10, 2024. Led by General Catalyst (Teresa Carlson joined the company in an advisory role). Other investors: Bison Ventures, Industry Ventures, Lux Capital and existing investors. After this round, Cobot's total funding raised reached $140M ($10M seed + $30M Series A + $100M Series B).
$100M
Products & solutions
1 robots · 1 software
Organizational relations
2 brandsProfile & metadata
4 classification · 2 external linksClassification
- Statusactive
- Development stagegrowth
- Listed onNo
- Organization typeRobotics company