Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has emerged from stealth with a $30M pre-seed round from redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital. It builds robots that sense force and touch through their motors, not only cameras. Founder Manuel Yves Galliker previously led software for 1X’s NEO humanoid.
Enact Intelligence, a Zurich startup building robots that can feel force and touch, has come out of stealth with $30M in pre-seed funding, the company said on Thursday. Venture firms redalpine, Notion Capital and firstminute capital backed the round.
Angel investors include Mistral founder Arthur Mensch and Yann LeCun, whose own AI lab, AMI Labs, raised about $1B in March. Andrew Lonsberry, founder of Path Robotics, also invested.
Sifted reported it is the largest pre-seed round ever raised in Switzerland.…