YPOG advised Stuttgart-based startup Sereact on its Series B financing round. The round has a total volume of USD 110 million and was led by Headline. Additional new investors include Bullhound Capital, Daphni and Felix Capital. Existing investors, including Creandum, Point Nine and Air Street Capital, participated again.
Sereact was founded by Dr. Ralf Gulde and Marc Tuscher in Stuttgart and develops AI models for robots operating in the physical world. The company does not build its own hardware, but instead delivers Cortex, an AI model that runs on a wide variety of robot platforms — whether single-armed, dual-armed, humanoid or stationary. The current generation, Cortex 2, enables robots not only to react, but to anticipate situations and update in real time. Sereact is considered one of the most widely deployed providers of AI picking robots worldwide, with more than 200 systems in operation across Europe and over one billion production picks completed. Customers include BMW, Daimler Truck, DHL, Mercedes-Benz, PepsiCo and Österreichische Post.
The fresh capital will be used to scale Cortex 2 and enter the US market. Sereact plans to open its first US office in Boston and build out a local team across sales, application and engineering. The next strategic focus area is contact-based work, such as the precise assembly of components or the insertion of sensitive parts without causing damage.
Sereact had previously closed a Series A round led by Creandum in January 2025 on which YPOG also adivsed Sereact.
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Dr. Benjamin Ullrich (Lead, Transactions), Partner, Berlin
Dr. Benedikt Flöter (IP/IT/Data Protection), Partner, Berlin
Jörg Schrade (Tax), Partner, München
Anna Eickmeier (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associated Partner, Berlin
Dr. Emma Peters (Transactions), Associated Partner, Berlin
Silke Ricken (Corporate), Associate, Berlin
Charlotte Petrasch (IP/IT/Data Protection), Associate, Berlin
Elmar Trautmann (Transactions), Associate, Berlin
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