Japan's O-ID raises $1.2M pre-seed for humanoid robots
What's the deal? O-IDDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a Japanese humanoid robot startup, has raised $1.2 million in a pre-seed round. The company was founded in 2025 by Stian Jakobsen and Simon Gormuzov, who met at Waseda University in Tokyo.
What's the endgame? O-ID has filed a provisional US patent on its modular connector technology. It is building its robots to meet US National Defense Authorization Act requirements as it plans to ship them to the US.
Why now? The startup said it had signed letters of intent with Japanese manufacturers, signalling early commercial interest as it moves toward production.
The signal: The round sits in the roughly 32nd percentile for deal size, a modest sum that reflects O-ID's early stage. But its focus on defence-compliant hardware and modular design points to where humanoid robotics ambitions are heading — bridging Japanese manufacturing with US demand.
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