Barcelona’s THEKER raises €73M to deploy AI-native factory robots that learn on the job
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Barcelona’s THEKER raised €73M led by CRV with Samsung and LVMH for AI-native factory robots. It’s Samsung and LVMH’s first Spanish startup investment.
THEKER, the Barcelona-based AI robotics company, has raised €73 million ($85 million) in a Series A to scale its generalist factory robots across industrial production environments. The round was led by CRV, with participation from Samsung, LVMH, Cathay Innovation, 20VC, Henkel Ventures, Korelya, and Bright Pixel Capital. It marks Samsung’s first-ever investment in a Spanish company, LVMH’s first bet on the Spanish startup ecosystem, and CRV’s first investment in Spain.
The round comes less than a year after THEKER closed Spain’s largest-ever seed round at €18 million. The speed from seed to Series A reflects what the company calls real commercial deployment momentum, not just lab demos.
“We didn’t build THEKER to run pilots,” said co-founder Carla Gómez Cano. “We built it to...
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