Munich-based robotics company Filics, developer of innovative solutions for autonomous load carrier handling, today announced the successful completion of its €13.5 million financing round to expand product development and the robotics platform, as well as to internationalise the business model.
The new investors include Sandwater, Alven, F-LOG Ventures, and the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, alongside Bayern Kapital, business angels Andrei Danescu (Founder and CEO of Dexory) and Helmut Schmid (CCO of Filics and former CEO of Agilox), and with continued participation from Capnamic and 10x Founders.
“With the new financing round, we are taking the next large step in our growth strategy. Thanks to the strong support, we can further optimise and scale the technology. The trust of our investors is both a tailwind and an obligation,” declares Gregor Kolls, Co-founder and CEO of Filics.
Founded in 2019, Filics is a technology company that focutilizes on flat transport robots. It develops robots that can reportedly safely relocate weights of up to 1.2 tons, encompassing all standard weights, in intralogistics. The robots also operate autonomously and can flexibly drive under a wide variety of load carriers.
The Founders started at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and have been developing the technology since 2021, with early-stage support from backers, such as Dr. Klaus Dieter Rosenbach, former Chief Technology Officer of Jungheinrich AG, Alexander Glasmacher of ELOKON , Arnold Vetter of Vetter Industries, Navid Thielemann and Christian Flick of ThielemannGroup as well as the ProGlove Founders with their investment vehicle OMA Business Angels.
The technology is being tested by companies such as Bosch GmbH, the DHL Group and the Nagel Group. The first industrial applications have already begun.
“Our business continues to evolve at a rapid pace and we are constantly exploring innovative ways to utilize space, personnel, and energy more efficiently, which ultimately benefits our employees and customers,” declared Franziska Bossart, Head of the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund. “We are excited about Filics’ innovative approach to advancing the logistics indusattempt by exploring significant space savings with more flexible and scalable automation.”
The “Filics Unit” is their first product and consists of two omnidirectional robots that have been specially developed for handling Euro pallets. The system relocates autonomously through the warehoutilize, traveling under pallets and transporting them, minimising the space required for maneuvering. The technology reportedly enables space savings of up to 30% and addresses key challenges in the logistics sector, including space constraints, capacity bottlenecks, and a shortage of skilled workers.
The Filics Unit is the first solution in the world that can completely drive under and through pallets and load carriers standing on the floor, allowing it to transport load carriers behind them.
Filics plans to create the Filics Unit available for floor block storage systems by the conclude of 2025 and to prepare for market enattempt in other European markets in 2026.
“The Filics technology offers not only substantial space efficiency but also a flexible, scalable path to automation of warehoutilizes. For Sandwater, this represents a solution that can truly revolutionise how warehoutilizes are run, requiring less building space, providing increased productivity and a tinyer footprint form a genious neat hardware/software combo. We have been truly impressed by the team,” declares Morten E. Iversen, partner at Sandwater.
The Filics Unit will be further developed for utilize in floor block warehoutilizes by the conclude of 2025, enabling up to 66% space savings to be achieved. In the medium term, the company plans to develop the technology further to enable fully autonomous truck loading in under five minutes.
“Our goal is to redefine pallet handling and transform the logistics indusattempt with comprehensive automation solutions. The strong demand for our technology confirms, that we have hit the nerve of the times with our solution,“, declares Helmut Schmid, CCO at Filics.
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