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Smart Robotics
Flexible automation for manufacturing and intralogistics
About Smart Robotics
Smart Robotics is a Best (Netherlands) robotics company founded in 2015 by Heico Sandee (Co-CEO/CTO) and Mark Menting that builds AI-driven pick-and-place robotic cells for warehouse and production intralogistics. Its embodied-AI platform combines vision, motion and decision algorithms so cobots handle high SKU variability for item picking, mixed-case palletising and depalletising across food, retail, pharma and parcel customers; the company reports more than 120 deployments in over 15 countries, uptime around 99.5%, throughput up to about 1,000 picks per hour, and what it describes as Europe's first billion successful live production picks. Co-CEO Felix Schmidt helps lead commercial scale-up of full-stack robotic cells tailored to customer workflows rather than selling commodity arms alone. In April 2026 Smart Robotics raised a €10 million Series A led by Rotterdamse Havendraken, with Innovation Industries and Dutch family office Ernij Next, to accelerate European growth, strengthen commercial operations and advance AI pick-and-place technology. Sources: Tech Funding News 21 Apr 2026; smart-robotics.io; Innovation Industries.
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- Status
- Operational
- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- Best, Netherlands
- Employees
- 52
- Open positions
- None listed
- Dealroom signal
- 66.3/100
- Sector
- Robotics, Supply Chain Management, Core AI, Industrial Robotics, Industry 4.0, Spinout, Software Development, Industrial Technology, Logistics Tech
- Technology
- Artificial Intelligence, Hardware, Deep Tech
- Business model
- Manufacturing, SaaS
- Client focus
- b2b
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Funding history
Company financing events and reported valuations.
| Deal type | Date | Amount | Valuation | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SERIES AOther financing | Apr 2026 | $11M | $44M | Innovation Industries · Rotterdamse Havendraken | ↗ |
| EARLY VCOther financing | Jan 2022 | $0 | — | Innovation Industries · Mirai Creation fund · Toyota Motor Corporation | ↗ |
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Latest recorded traffic for Smart Robotics is 5.4K monthly website visits, down 19.4% over the last three months. Smart Robotics's team declined 3.7% over the past year.
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Seed2 investors entered at this stage
BOM - Brabant Regional Development Agency
Vanderlande
Series A4 investors entered at this stage
Toyota Motor Corporation
Innovation Industries
Mirai Creation fund
Rotterdamse Havendraken
Other known investors1 additional known investor
Eindhoven University of Technology
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