Swiss Robotics Startup Enact Raises $30M Pre-Seed with LeCun and Mensch Backing
Zurich-based Enact Intelligence has left stealth with a $30m pre-seed round, drawing investment from Mistral's Arthur Mensch and Yann LeCun as it builds force-sensing robots.
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Swiss robotics company Enact Intelligence has come out of stealth with a $30m pre-seed round, according to reporting from Tech.eu and Sifted. The raise is notably large for a pre-seed stage and arrives amid heavy investor interest in robotics.
The round drew backing from two figures associated with the French AI sector: Arthur Mensch, chief of Mistral, and Yann LeCun, formerly Meta's chief AI scientist. Both participated as angel investors, alongside Hugging Face's Thomas Wolf. Institutional investors in the round included Redalpine, Notion Capital and Firstminute Capital.
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