Slamcore announced a $14 million funding round backed by investors including Rockwell Automation through its subsidiary ROKStar Ventures. The financing increases Slamcore’s total funding to $40 million, with additional backing from Toyota Ventures, Interwoven Ventures, MMC Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners, and IP Group.
The company said it has rapidly expanded its market footprint, scaling to hundreds of deployed units across more than 30 facilities in under two years. Slamcore’s products, Slamcore Aware and Slamcore Alert, use proprietary visual AI and stereo camera technology to improve safety and operational efficiency in industrial environments without requiring GPS, beacons, floor markers, or additional infrastructure.
The funding comes as industrial operators increasingly look for solutions to address both productivity and workplace safety concerns. According to the company, many factories and warehouses still lack real-time visibility into the location and performance of manual vehicle fleets despite broader investments in automation technologies.
Slamcore’s platform continuously tracks the position and behavior of industrial vehicles inside facilities. Slamcore Aware is designed to provide operations managers with visibility across entire fleets, helping reduce idle time and improve investigations into operational issues. Meanwhile, Slamcore Alert monitors driver behavior and proximity to pedestrians and structures to identify near misses before they become serious incidents.
The company also emphasized the long-term value of the operational datasets being generated through its deployments. Slamcore believes the large-scale real-world industrial data collected through its platform could become a foundational component for the next generation of Physical AI systems.
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“Operations managers in factories and warehouses have largely been flying blind when it comes to their manual fleets. Slamcore Aware and Slamcore Alert change that from day one, without disruption to existing operations. ROKStar Ventures’ investment tells us that the industry’s most sophisticated players see this as a foundational infrastructure, not just another point solution. As our footprint grows, so does a body of real-world operational data that does not exist anywhere else and that will become the backbone for the next generation of physical AI.”
Owen Nicholson, CEO, Slamcore
“Delivering visual AI that performs reliably at the scale and complexity of a real factory or distribution center is a genuinely hard problem. Most approaches either require significant infrastructure investment or fail to hold up in the dynamic, unpredictable conditions of an active facility. The potential for the same technology platform to work on every class of autonomous and human-operated industrial vehicle is key. We’re also incredibly excited about their ability to scale without requiring complex and time-consuming vehicle or facility redesigns.”
Ryan Gariepy, Vice President Of Robotics, Rockwell Automation
“At Toyota Ventures, we believe safety and efficiency go hand-in-hand. Slamcore Aware and Alert have proven this today, but their long-term potential is even more compelling. Each Slamcore deployment generates real-world operational data, which will train the next generation of physical AI models.”
Jim Adler, Founder And General Partner, Toyota Ventures
