📝THEKER raises $85M

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Barcelona-based AI robotics startup THEKER has secured $85 million in a historic Series A funding round to accelerate the global deployment of its AI-native generalist robots across heavy manufacturing, logistics, and retail supply chains. The blockbuster round stands as the largest ever robotics Series A in European history and marks a monumental milestone for the Spanish tech ecosystem, capturing the first-ever Spanish startup investments from global silicon titan Samsung and luxury conglomerate LVMH alongside elite tier-one institutional backing from Silicon Valley’s CRV, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, and Henkel Ventures. Founded by robotics and AI vision engineers Carla Gómez Cano and Jiaqiang Ye Zhu, THEKER addresses chronic industrial labor shortages and rigid factory automation overhead by designing intelligent, full-stack robotic systems that deploy in days and operate autonomously without costly manual reprogramming. While legacy manufacturing robots are hardcoded to handle single, static tasks, THEKER’s proprietary neural network software allows its multi-jointed robotic arms to perceive, reason, and adapt in real time to operational variability, including mixed inventory SKUs, irregular package geometry, and shifting workspace layouts. Coming less than a year after closing a record-breaking seed round, this capital injection will be heavily deployed to scale global commercial distribution with tier-one logistics and industrial operators, expand cross-functional engineering teams in Barcelona, and advance its physical AI software layer, cementing THEKER alongside a massive €219 million 2026 European industrial automation investment wave featuring Germany's RobCo and Sereact.

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