Maven Robotics Raises $100M Series A for Warehouse Robots

Maven Robotics raised a $100 million Series A on Sept. 10, TechCrunch reported, two years after the Santa Clara, California, startup began working with its first customer. The round was led by RoboStrategy, SiliconANGLE reported, with LocalGlobe, Vine Ventures and XTX Ventures also participating, and follows an $18 million pre-Series A round the company had not previously disclosed publicly.

Maven builds wheeled, dual-arm robots that use vacuum-gripper arms to lift up to 30 kilograms each, moving on a base that reaches 10 mph. The company says the robots run at more than 99 percent uptime over 16-hour shifts. So far, according to SiliconANGLE, that fleet amounts to eight robots deployed at a single Fortune 250 consumer packaged-goods company, work Maven calls mixed-case palletizing: building a shipping pallet stacked with different-sized boxes to match what a store actually ordered, rather than one uniform product.

Two brothers, and engineers pulled from Tesla, Rivian and Zoox

Maven was founded in 2024 by brothers Hamza Derbas, chief executive, and Khalid Derbas, chief financial officer. Hamza Derbas spent nine years at Apple's special projects group before starting the company; Khalid Derbas came from a private-equity background. SiliconANGLE reported the wider team includes engineers who previously worked at Tesla, Rivian and Zoox, three companies built around getting hardware from a prototype into a factory or a vehicle at volume, the same transition Maven is now trying to make with warehouse robots.

The market size Maven is selling against

Derbas told TechCrunch the company is "grounded in solving one customer problem at a time," describing mixed-case palletizing and tote handling as an $80 billion addressable market on their own, and the broader category of material handling and assembly as worth more than $1 trillion. Those are Maven's own estimates, not figures from an independent market-research firm, and neither TechCrunch nor SiliconANGLE cited outside verification of either number. Maven told SiliconANGLE it expects to log more than 100,000 autonomous operating hours by the end of 2026 and more than 1 million by the end of 2027, alongside plans to build 250 units of a third-generation robot and begin design work on a fourth.

Spec	Figure
Arm payload	30 kg per arm
Base speed	Up to 10 mph
Reported uptime	99%-plus over 16-hour shifts
Robots deployed	8, at one customer

1. Pre-Series A18 $ millions
2. Series A100 $ millions

Source: SiliconANGLE, Sept. 10, 2026, accessed Sept. 20, 2026

What TechCrunch's own framing leaves unresolved

TechCrunch's coverage of the round explicitly names Agility Robotics as pursuing the same warehouse-automation customers Maven wants, but with a bipedal humanoid design rather than Maven's wheeled base, a reminder that a buyer choosing among physical-AI vendors right now is choosing an entire robot architecture, not just a company. Neither TechCrunch nor SiliconANGLE reported a post-money valuation for the Series A, and Maven has not disclosed revenue, leaving the round's price tag effectively invisible even though its size is not. Maven's raise lands in the same wave of physical-AI capital that has funded XDOF and Mecka's competing bets on robot-training data and SoftBank's move to buy back the Robotics and AI Institute from Hyundai. The next concrete marker for Maven is whether the eight-robot deployment at its one named customer type expands to a second account before the end of 2026, the timeline Maven itself set for crossing 100,000 autonomous hours.

Sources

1. Maven Robotics wants to steal your robot deployment deal, TechCrunch
2. Maven Robotics launches with $100M to scale its industrial robots, SiliconANGLE