Robotics funding had a problem at the start of the pandemic, when many companies failed to make their runway stretch over a period of investor malaise. Sadly this resulted in many companies in very early stage (and a couple of much larger ones) going out of business. However, funding has made a massive rebound since 2020, meeting and exceeding the previous maxima in 2021. And from just January to June 9th 2022, we've recorded $14,478,882,674 global equity investment in robotics, leading to a massive $37B valuation just for those companies with one of the 436 funding events in 2022.*fewer than 436 companies because some companies had two funding rounds in the same period.29% are considered seed stage companies, which is a healthy number and shows the continued growth of new areas of robotics, and plenty of room at the table still for companies following the market leaders, who are starting to consolidate positions.Here's a link to the 2021 robotics fundings sheet and to the current 2022 fundings sheet. *this isn't the only dataset and of course it isn't perfect but over a ten year period the totals and trends from it have performed much more closely to the retrospective analysis of robotics. It's a nice average between more conservative experts and less specialized pundits.
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Robotics funding reaches new highs in 2022!
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Robotics funding had a problem at the start of the pandemic, when many companies failed to make their runway stretch over a period of investor malaise. Sadly this resulted in many companies in very early stage (and a couple of much larger ones) going out of business. However, funding has made a massive rebound since 2020, meeting and exceeding the previous maxima in 2021. And from just January to June 9th 2022, we've recorded $14,478,882,674 global equity investment in robotics, leading to a massive $37B valuation just for those companies with one of the 436 funding events in 2022.*fewer than 436 companies because some companies had two funding rounds in the same period.29% are considered seed stage companies, which is a healthy number and shows the continued growth of new areas of robotics, and plenty of room at the table still for companies following the market leaders, who are starting to consolidate positions.Here's a link to the 2021 robotics fundings sheet and to the current 2022 fundings sheet. *this isn't the only dataset and of course it isn't perfect but over a ten year period the totals and trends from it have performed much more closely to the retrospective analysis of robotics. It's a nice average between more conservative experts and less specialized pundits.