Overview
- The Barcelona startup closed an $85 million Series A led by U.S. venture firm CRV in a round the company calls Europe’s largest robotics Series A.
- Strategic backers include Samsung and Aglaé Ventures, and investors describe the round as their first direct bets in Spain for those firms.
- THEKER builds reconfigurable, AI-driven “generalist” robots whose arms and end‑effectors can be swapped so the same machine handles different tasks without manual reprogramming.
- The company says its robots are operating in live Inditex production facilities, it runs a Barcelona showroom to demonstrate systems, and it plans to grow headcount toward about 100 people to speed deployments and R&D.
- THEKER’s raise highlights a shift in robotics funding toward deployable automation but the firm still faces the challenge of scaling from a few live sites to large industrial customers and competing with entrenched incumbents.