Exclaim Robotics Bags €4.29 Mn Pre-Seed to Scale Autonomous Robots for AI Data Centres

The startup is developing autonomous mobile robots that can work inside AI data centres without human assistance.

These robots are designed to handle routine repair and maintenance tasks, helping data centres operate more efficiently while reducing manual work and downtime.

“The speed of innovation in data centre infrastructure is reminiscent of the space race: power density is pushing the whole industry to the edge of the laws of physics. Liquid cooling, 800V DC across the whole facility, possibly superconducting bus bars cooled with liquid nitrogen. Maintaining that by hand gets more dangerous every year, and that’s the part robots should take,” said Helen Oleynikova, CEO and Founder of Exclaim Robotics.

“AI data centres are scaling faster than anyone can staff or safely maintain them, and the 800V transition will change everything about how that infrastructure gets run. Helen and her team from ETH Zürich, NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google are the people to solve it. We backed Exclaim because Helen is exactly the founder you want when a hard problem becomes urgent,” said Antonia Albert, Principal at Founderful.

Founded in 2026 by Oleynikova, The company builds autonomous robots that help maintain and repair AI data centres.

These robots can move around data centres on their own and carry out regular tasks such as inspections, basic repairs, and maintenance.

By handling these routine jobs, the robots reduce the need for manual work, improve efficiency, and help data centres run smoothly with less downtime.