Osborne Clarke advises redalpine on Germany's largest seed funding round to date of USD 55 million of robotics start-up MicroAGI
Published on 17th July 2026
Osborne Clarke has provided legal advice to redalpine, a leading European venture capital investor focused on technology-driven growth companies, on its participation in the seed funding round of Munich-based robotics start-up MicroAGI. MicroAGI, a company specialised in the fast and safe deployment of industrial robots, raised USD 55 million in the round – according to the company, the largest seed funding round in the history of the German start-up ecosystem to date. Lead investor was international VC Hummingbird; further funds came from Northzone, LocalGlobe and Village Global, alongside redalpine.
With its Atlas platform, MicroAGI is developing a data and deployment solution that enables industrial companies to bring robots into productive use in factories and logistics centres more quickly. The company captures operational data directly during live operations, structures it for AI-supported training processes and optimises the robots in use for plant-specific tasks. MicroAGI was founded only around ten months ago by former Formula 1 engineers, including former Red Bull Racing engineer Bercan Kilic; in addition to its headquarters in Munich, the start-up operates a research centre in the vicinity of ETH Zurich as well as further locations in London and New York.
With the funding, MicroAGI intends to roll out its Atlas platform into additional industrial sectors, build further engineering teams and purchase substantial computing capacity. The round is regarded as a signal for the European robotics and AI sector: it underlines the growing willingness of international investors to invest very early and at significant scale in physical automation solutions that strengthen Europe’s industrial base while at the same time addressing global supply chain risks.
“Automation and robotics give us the chance to bring manufacturing back to Europe: fully automated factories that leverage Europe’s technological strength while at the same time eliminating expensive transport routes, supply chain risks and dependencies on other countries,” says Sebastian Becker, Partner at redalpine.
Comprehensive advice on structuring the seed funding round
Osborne Clarke provided redalpine with comprehensive advice on the corporate and contractual aspects of its participation in the seed funding round. This particularly included structuring the investment, negotiating the financing documentation with the international investor consortium and aligning typical venture capital governance provisions with the requirements of a strongly growth-oriented robotics and AI company.
With its expertise in venture capital, tech transactions and regulated industries, Osborne Clarke was able to support redalpine in the pragmatic and market-standard implementation of the investment and thereby contribute an important building block to the further scaling of MicroAGI.
The Osborne Clarke team led by Maximilian Vocke also included Dr Espen Schneider (both Corporate / Transactions).
