Sereact and the software layer Europe's factories already need

Sereact and the software layer Europe's factories already need

The International Federation of Robotics reports that Germany alone operates over 415 industrial robots per 10,000 manufacturing employees, the fourth-highest density in the world after South Korea, Singapore and China.

When production processes change, however, all these robots usually have to be retrained. A process often slower and more expensive than the original deployment. AI can operate as a bridge, shortening the time between deployment between different production processes.

Sereact, founded in Stuttgart in 2021 by Dr. Ralf Gulde (CEO) and Marc Tuscher (CTO), develops Cortex, a vision-language-action model that runs on third-party robot hardware. Cortex 2 augments the VLA with a world model. Such a model allows the robot to simulate actions against a learned model of physics before moving, and updates in real time as the scene changes. The system is hardware-agnostic, meaning it can be effectively applied across single-arm cells, dual-arm stations, humanoids and fixed automation.

Sereact has raised a $110 million (€93 million) Series B led by Headline, with Bullhound Capital, Daphni and Felix Capital joining, and existing investors Creandum, Point Nine and Air Street Capital following on. Total funding now exceeds $140 million. Capital will fund Cortex 2 development and a first US office in Boston, opening this summer.

Sereact maps directly onto what Draghi flagged as Europe's commercialisation gap. The company is the most deployed AI picking system globally, built on European industrial data, now scaling into the American market rather than in the EU one.

Sources: Sereact | Sifted | Draghi report | Crunchbase

Founders: Ralf Gulde, Marc Tuscher