$30m · Pre-Seed · Robotics · Zurich, Switzerland
Enact Intelligence has raised $30m in pre-seed funding as the Zurich robotics company emerges from stealth. Tech.eu reports that Redalpine, Notion Capital and Firstminute Capital participated, alongside angels including Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun and Thomas Wolf. The company says the capital will expand its team and accelerate hardware and R&D development.
Turning force into a usable data layer
Enact is building an integrated stack of models, data pipelines, actuators and sensors for robots that must manipulate objects in the physical world. Its premise is that vision can guide a robot towards an object, but contact-rich work also requires the machine to detect resistance and adjust while inserting, fastening or handling it. Rather than relying only on point sensors, Enact says it captures force through the actuators themselves, creating what it describes as whole-body force awareness.
That design makes sensing part of the robot's control stack rather than a peripheral add-on. If Enact can collect consistent force data across different movements and form factors, each deployment could contribute training signals for later tasks while reducing dependence on fragile task-specific sensing. The commercial value would come from making manipulation more transferable across industrial jobs, but the claim still needs proof in repeatable customer deployments; the launch material does not disclose performance benchmarks or named customers.
Capital for a full-stack build
EU-Startups reports that founder and CEO Manuel Yves Galliker previously led software work on 1X's NEO humanoid and later worked at Physical Intelligence. It says Enact was founded in March 2026 and has a twelve-person team with experience from DeepMind, 1X, Amazon Robotics, Helsing, Physical Intelligence and ETH Zurich.
The financing is intended to grow that team fivefold by the end of 2027, accelerate hardware and R&D pipelines, and roll robots out with industrial partners across manufacturing, infrastructure, retail and food processing, according to EU-Startups. That breadth gives Enact several routes to a first market, but it also creates a sharp execution test: converting an integrated research stack into reliable equipment that can be commissioned, supported and improved across materially different workplaces. The next meaningful evidence will be named deployments and measured performance on contact-heavy tasks, rather than the range of industries the architecture could eventually address.
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Tech.eu reporting · EU-Startups reporting · Enact Intelligence website · Tech.eu Funding Explorer
