Maven Robotics

Industrial Robotics · Logistics Automation · Manufacturing Tech

Funding

Maven Robotics raises $100M Series A to scale industrial robot fleets

Wheeled dual-arm robots, not humanoid legs, already run 16-hour shifts with 99% uptime at a Fortune 250 manufacturer.

• Maven Robotics emerged from two years of stealth with a $100 million Series A led by RoboStrategy, with participation from LocalGlobe, Vine Ventures, and XTX Ventures.
• Founded in 2024 by brothers Hamza and Khalid Derbas, the Santa Clara company builds hardware, software, and AI for warehouse and factory automation; CEO Hamza spent nine years in Apple's Special Projects Group, widely believed to have built Apple's self-driving car before it was disbanded in 2024.
• Maven's robots use a wheeled mobile base that hits 10 mph paired with two vacuum-gripper arms lifting up to 30 kilograms, targeting mixed-case palletizing where warehouse workers rebuild pallets to match real-time store demand.
• Up to eight units already run 16-hour shifts with 99%+ uptime at a Fortune 250 consumer packaged goods company, and Maven expects to log 100,000 autonomous operating hours by end of 2026 and 1 million by end of 2027.
• The new capital funds 250 third-generation robots and early design of a fourth-generation platform, as Maven expands beyond its initial $80 billion palletizing and tote-handling market into complex material handling and assembly worth more than $1 trillion.
• With more than 480,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs unfilled and robotics VC funding topping $18.8 billion in just the first half of 2026, Maven's two years of proven factory-floor deployment set it apart from rivals still chasing generalized humanoid form factors.