Maven Robotics has raised $100 million in Series A funding as the company launches its general-purpose robotics system for industrial work across manufacturing and logistics. The financing came from RoboStrategy, LocalGlobe, Vine Ventures and XTX Ventures, among others. Maven was founded in 2024 and designs, builds and deploys intelligent robotic systems intended to perform complex physical tasks in industrial environments.
The company is initially focused on material-handling and assembly applications as manufacturers contend with persistent labor shortages.
Maven cited more than 480,000 unfilled U.S. manufacturing jobs today and estimates that the manufacturing skills gap could leave 2.1 million jobs unfilled by 2030. Global venture investment in robotics exceeded $18.8 billion during the first half of 2026, although Maven believes deployment of autonomous systems in real industrial environments remains limited.
Maven has designed its robotics system from the ground up for industrial environments, integrating hardware, software and AI across the robot, fleet, factory and broader Maven network.
The company said its robots are intended to learn and execute real production tasks with the reliability required for continuous industrial operations while improving their intelligence as deployments scale.
Maven began with mixed-case palletizing and tote handling, two workflows the company estimates represent an approximately $80 billion addressable market.
It has since started expanding into more complex material-handling and assembly applications that Maven estimates represent a market opportunity exceeding $1 trillion.
The company has already deployed fleets of robots operating autonomously across multiple shifts each day for a Fortune 250 consumer packaged goods company.
Maven expects its systems to accumulate more than 100,000 hours of autonomous real-world operations by the end of 2026 and surpass 1 million hours by the end of 2027 as it adds customers and expands deployments.
The company was co-founded by brothers Hamza Derbas and Khalid Derbas.
Hamza Derbas, Maven’s CEO, has more than two decades of experience developing autonomous systems and bringing complex physical technologies to market. Khalid Derbas, the company’s CFO, has experience as an investor and operator scaling businesses across global markets.
Maven’s broader team brings a combined more than 200 years of experience across AI, robotics, engineering and autonomous systems, with backgrounds at companies including Apple, Tesla, Rivian, Cruise, Zoox, Ford and Archer Aviation.
Maven is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and is positioning its platform as a general-purpose system capable of expanding beyond narrow, single-task industrial automation into a broader range of physical work.
KEY QUOTES:
“Intelligent industrial robots promise an incredible future. If we can activate autonomous labor, we can build a world of infinitely elastic industrial capacity,” said Hamza Derbas, Maven Robotics CEO. “We are building the system to make that a reality.”
Hamza Derbas, CEO of Maven Robotics
“We believe general-purpose robotics has one of the largest market opportunities in technology,” said Jack Pearson, Principal at RoboStrategy, the lead investor in Maven’s Series A. “But there’s a huge gap between a robot that demos well and one that survives three production shifts a day, seven days a week. Maven has a top-tier team with a track record of shipping high performing products, and they’ve taken that experience and built a general-purpose robot designed to meet large enterprise requirements at scale.”
Jack Pearson, Principal at RoboStrategy
