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§ Private Profile · San Francisco, CA, USA
Provides mission-critical software infrastructure for robotics companies and startups to build, operate, and scale robotic fleets.
Based in San Francisco, California, Freedom Robotics provides a hardware agnostic software infrastructure platform that enables commercial enterprises to build, operate, support, and scale diverse robotic fleets. The company delivers turnkey software as a service tools designed to accelerate product development cycles for robotics teams operating across multiple industrial sectors, such as commercial agriculture, restaurant automation, warehouse manufacturing, and last mile logistics. Operating with a workforce of approximately 15 total employees, the organization secured $6.6 million in a seed funding round in July 2019 to further develop its core infrastructure technology. This capital raise was led by Initialized Capital, featuring strategic investments from prominent venture entities including Toyota AI Ventures, Liquid 2 Ventures, and Twitch co-founder Justin Kan. Freedom Robotics was founded in 2018 by CEO Josh Wilson alongside a team of several co-founders.
Freedom Robotics has raised $7.0M across 1 funding round.
Freedom Robotics has raised $7.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Freedom Robotics has raised $7.0M across 1 funding round. Most recently, it raised $7.0M Seed in July 2019.
| Date | Round | Lead Investors | Other Investors | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 2019 | $7M Seed | Garry TAN | Alumni Ventures, Amity Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Avalon Ventures, Balderton Capital, Buckley Ventures, Climate Capital, Goat Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Humbition, Ligature, Tony Florence, NFX, Outrun Ventures, Passion Capital, S28 Capital, SNR, Sunfish Partners, Y Combinator, Balaji Srinivasan, Brett Topche, Esther Dyson, Francesco Simoneschi, KV RAO, Marc Benioff, Richard Burton, Sylwester Janik, TAZ Patel, Arianna Simpson, James Lindenbaum, Josh Buckley, Justin KAN, Kevin Mahaffey, JIM Adler | Announced |
Freedom Robotics is a San Francisco-based technology company founded in 2018 that provides mission-critical software infrastructure for modern robotics companies.[1][2][3][4] It enables robotics firms to build, operate, support, and scale robots and fleets through a platform-agnostic solution that installs in seconds with one line of code, helping them reach market 10x faster using half the resources.[1][3][4] The platform serves robotics developers and operators by solving operational challenges like remote control, fleet management, and data visualization via tools such as Mission Control, reducing engineering overhead for reliable, safe robot management.[2][4]
Freedom Robotics was founded in 2018 by Joshua Wilson, Hans Lee, Dimitri Onistsuk, Alex Cutting, and Jonathan Tran.[3][4] The core team recognized the "undifferentiated heavy lifting" required by all robotics companies—tools for control, management, and scaling that divert resources from core product innovation.[4] Early traction came with a $6.6M Series Seed funding round announced in July 2019, validating their infrastructure approach and positioning them to power next-generation robotics.[4]
Freedom Robotics rides the surge in robotics adoption across industries like logistics, manufacturing, and autonomy, where scaling fleets demands robust backend infrastructure amid talent shortages and high development costs.[1][4] Timing aligns with maturing hardware (e.g., cheaper sensors) and AI advancements, but software bottlenecks persist; Freedom addresses this by offloading non-core tasks, accelerating product-market fit.[4] It influences the ecosystem by enabling smaller robotics startups to compete with giants, fostering innovation through efficient resource allocation and standardized tools.[1][3]
Freedom Robotics is poised to expand as robotics fleets proliferate in warehouses, delivery, and service sectors, with potential growth in enterprise integrations and AI-driven analytics.[1][2] Trends like edge computing and multi-robot orchestration will shape its trajectory, likely driving further funding and partnerships. Its influence may evolve from infrastructure enabler to ecosystem orchestrator, empowering more companies to deploy at scale and solidifying its role in the robotics software stack—much like cloud providers transformed general tech.
Freedom Robotics has raised $7.0M in total across 1 funding round.
Freedom Robotics's investors include Garry Tan, Alumni Ventures, Amity Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Avalon Ventures, Balderton Capital, Buckley Ventures, Climate Capital, Goat Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Humbition, Ligature.