More than €2.1m · Pre-Seed · Software · Dresden, Germany
Image: XISTA Science Ventures.
Dresden-based Evasive Robotics, which builds software for coordinating several industrial robots in a shared workspace, has raised more than €2.1m in an oversubscribed pre-seed round. Nucleus Capital, xista science ventures, Vanagon Ventures, Robin Capital and business angels invested. The company says the capital will fund further technology development, team growth and more deployments with industrial customers.
Coordinating robots instead of separating them
Evasive’s EvaLib is a real-time motion-planning library. Instead of programming a fixed path for each machine, an engineer defines the intended process and constraints; the software calculates collision-free, time-optimised trajectories for several robots as conditions change. The company says it runs on standard industrial hardware, supports different kinematic structures and can connect through OPC UA or custom interfaces.
That orchestration layer targets a practical factory constraint. Multiple robots can perform assembly, palletising or bin-picking work in the same cell, but coordination normally adds programming, calibration and safety complexity. Evasive’s proposition is that software can make those cells denser and easier to reconfigure without replacing the installed robot fleet. The company reports potential savings of 40% in floor space, 20% in ramp-up time, 95% in reconfiguration effort and 15% in project cost; these figures are company claims rather than independently verified results.
The commercial mechanism depends on repeatability. A vendor-neutral motion layer becomes more valuable when the same engineering work transfers across robot brands, cell layouts and tasks. That can shorten commissioning for customers while giving Evasive a product that scales beyond bespoke integration. The risk is the same one faced by many industrial-software companies: if each site still needs extensive custom work, deployment capacity grows with revenue and limits software margins.
Industrial deployments are the next proof point
XISTA says Evasive was founded in Dresden in 2024 as a spin-off from the TU Dresden robotics ecosystem. Its funding announcement frames the next phase around expanding deployments, not merely extending laboratory demonstrations. Each customer project can test whether the motion-planning library preserves safety, cycle time and ease of reconfiguration in production environments with different machines and operating constraints.
The pre-seed therefore finances a specific transition: turning a technically demanding coordination engine into a repeatable industrial product. Team growth can add the engineering and customer-facing capacity needed for early projects, but the stronger milestone will be evidence that later cells take less time to commission than the first ones. If Evasive can reuse integrations and motion-planning logic across deployments, the orchestration layer can capture value from the growing installed base of robots without requiring the company to manufacture hardware itself.
