German Startup Energy Robotics Secures €11.5 Million In Series A Round

The round was co-led by Blue Bear Capital and Climate Investment (CI), with participation from Futury Capital, Hessen Capital, Kensho VC, and TADTech.

“This funding round will help us scale autonomy to serve the world’s most critical infrastructure, giving energy, chemicals, utilities, and security operators greater resilience, safety, and efficiency,” said Marc Dassler, CEO and Co-founder of Energy Robotics.

He added: “As a skilled workforce retires, critical infrastructure operators face a significant demographic shift. This is compounded by the fact that many of the world’s most vital energy and chemical assets are decades old requiring more frequent and intricate monitoring, inspection and maintenance. This combination of an aging workforce, a shrinking talent pool, and deteriorating infrastructure creates a perfect storm of operational risk.”

Energy Robotics’ Series A places the company among several industrial automation firms attracting significant funding this year. Swiss robotics developer ANYbotics raised over €127 million for its four-legged inspection robots, Flybotix secured €8.5 million to expand drone inspections in confined spaces and Voliro added €19.8 million for maintenance drones. Other German startups also drew investment, including Filics (€13.5 million), Unchained Robotics (€8.5 million), sensmore (€6.5 million), and Sereact (€25 million).

These investments highlight strong confidence in Europe’s autonomous systems sector, covering drones, legged robots, and software-driven platforms. Energy Robotics’ funding strengthens Germany’s industrial and AI robotics ecosystem, supporting Europe’s push to automate infrastructure inspection and maintenance.

“Our platform provides a timely and scalable solution, enabling customers to not only maintain but also improve operational efficiency and safety, while actively mitigating the challenges of this workforce transition,” added Dassler.

Founded in 2019 Energy Robotics offers an AI software platform for autonomous industrial inspection. Its hardware-agnostic solution works with various robot platforms, creates Evergreen Digital Twins of infrastructure, and delivers actionable insights directly into workflows.

The company has completed over one million inspections across five continents, saving 32,000+ hours of hazardous labor for clients in oil and gas, industrial, chemical, and utility sectors, including BASF, BP, Dow Chemical, E.ON, Merck, Repsol, and Shell.

Energy Robotics addresses two key challenges in industrial facilities: a shrinking skilled workforce and aging, complex equipment requiring specialised maintenance. Its AI-driven robots and drones reduce operating costs by up to 40% while improving worker safety.

Operating in high-risk industries, the platform enables autonomous visual inspections, thermal scans, and leak detection, keeping workers out of dangerous environments and securing sensitive data.

“The industrial robotics market has reached an inflection point,” said Cindi Bough, Managing Director at Climate Investment. “Energy Robotics has built an AI software platform that orchestrates diverse fleets of robots and drones, integrates seamlessly with existing enterprise workflows, and delivers actionable data services at scale today. Also, Energy Robotics delivers climate impact by using autonomous robots to spot gas leaks early, so harmful emissions are fixed before they escape into the atmosphere. This is why we are excited to co-lead their Series A investment.“

“The global energy transition relies on a more resilient, efficient, and secure infrastructure,” said Dr Carolin Funk, Partner, Blue Bear Capital. “Energy Robotics’ autonomous inspection platform, powered by AI, directly addresses this need. It provides a scalable solution that improves the safety and operational efficiency of key energy and industrial assets, while taking advantage of the global robotics expansion.“