An 11-person startup raised $40 million to challenge robotics' data-hungry giants

Fecha de publicación: 27 de octubre de 2026, 10:00

Machenta cofounders Edward Johns and Vitalis Vosylius Oscar May Machenta raised $40 million in seed funding led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures. It says robots can learn tasks from one demo using a model trained entirely in simulation. The startup remains focused on research as it takes on…