Backed by Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch, Swiss Physical AI startup Enact Intelligence exits stealth with €26.68 million
Enact Intelligence, a physical AI startup headquartered in Zurich, has come out of stealth today with a €26.68 million ($30 million) pre-Seed funding round, one of the largest pre-Seed raises in Europe to date. The round saw participation from institutional investors redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital, alongside a notable slate of angel investors, including […] The post Backed by…
Enact Intelligence, a physical AI startup based in Zurich, has emerged from stealth with €26.68 million ($30 million) in pre-Seed funding, marking one of the largest pre-Seed rounds in Europe. Backed by investors including redalpine, Notion Capital, firstminute capital, Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, and Andrew Lonsberry, Enact Intelligence aims to revolutionize robotics with a new data modality.
The company's focus is on high-precision force data from custom-built actuators, enabling robots to sense their environment and interact with objects more effectively. Enact's CEO, Manuel Yves Galliker, emphasizes that traditional robots rely heavily on vision, limiting their ability to manipulate objects and learn efficiently. By rethinking the entire stack, from models and data pipelines to actuators and sensors, Enact aims to create robots that can learn from experience, perform tasks reliably, and operate at an industrial scale.
With a team of 12 engineers, including talent from DeepMind, 1X, Amazon Robotics, and ETH Zurich, Enact plans to expand its workforce fivefold by the end of 2027, accelerate its hardware and R&D, and partner with multiple industrial clients in sectors such as manufacturing, infrastructure, retail, and food processing.
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