Creandum is a venture capital firm based in Sweden. Its humanoid robotics portfolio includes Machenta. Focus areas include frontier technology, robotics, deep tech.
London startup Machenta raised $40M from Creandum and Union Square Ventures to prove that robots can learn new tasks from a single demonstration, using a model pretrained entirely in simulation ... no real-world data collection required.
London startup Machenta raised a $40 million seed round co-led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures to advance robots that learn new tasks from a single demonstration. Its vision-demo-action model is pretrained in simulation and has demonstrated manipulation across six robots, including preliminary humanoid-hand experiments, but reliability and commercial deployment remain unproven.
Imperial College London spinout Machenta raised $40 million in seed funding led by Creandum and Union Square Ventures, which Imperial described as the largest seed financing by a U.K. robotics startup. The company is scaling a robot foundation model that learns tasks from a single demonstration and is pre-trained entirely on simulated data.