Viam
About
About Viam
Viam provides a common software interface to the motors, sensors and services that make up a machine. Developers write application logic through SDKs while hardware interfaces handle communication with individual components, allowing a machine’s software structure to carry from a prototype into a fleet.
Its data-management tools can record camera images, sensor readings and component state locally, then synchronise those records to the cloud. Capture methods and rates are configured for the selected components, connecting physical operation with later analysis. Viam combines these software services with cloud management and also offers SurfaceAI for robotic finishing, applying its platform to a specific manufacturing workflow.
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Funding
- 2025-03-03 - Series C - $30M - Viam’s Series C takes total funding to $117M
Viam raised a $30 million Series C, bringing total disclosed funding to $117 million for its physical-world AI and robotics platform. - source: viam.com
- 2024-03-26 - Series B - $45M - Viam raises USD 45M Series B for robotics software
Viam closed USD 45 million in Series B financing for its software platform for robotics, IoT and smart machines. - source: viam.com
- 2022-02-01 - Series A - $30M - Viam’s Series A brings disclosed capital to $42M
Viam raised a $30 million Series A, bringing its disclosed funding to $42 million for its robotics software platform. - source: viam.com
- 2021-06-29 - Seed - $12M - Union Square Ventures backs Viam’s $12M seed
Viam raised a $12 million seed round to build interoperable software and cloud infrastructure for robotics. - source: viam.com
Investors
- Battery Ventures - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-03-26 - latest 2025-03-03
- Union Square Ventures - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2024-03-26 - latest 2025-03-03
- Neurone - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-03-03
Team
- Eliot Horowitz - Founder and CEO - Leads Viam as a robotics software platform for building, deploying, and managing physical-world applications.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-09-22 - Demonstration - Viam unveils BoxBot open box-manipulation research system
Two engineers collected 125 teleoperated demonstrations in about five hours over four days using a VR controller. The learned flap-opening policy runs locally on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano, while tape cutting uses image-based visual servoing. Viam published the model and dataset on Hugging Face for reproduction and benchmarking.
Source - 2025-11-18 - Partnership - Viam partners with Universal Robots for industrial automation systems
The partnership covered Viam-powered automation for industrial manufacturing and marine workflows. Viam highlighted a robotic block-sanding solution using UR Series robots at IBEX 2025 and Metstrade 2025.
Source - 2025-03-03 - Funding - Viam’s Series C takes total funding to $117M
The round followed $87 million of previously disclosed funding across seed, Series A and Series B financing. Viam positioned the capital around software, data and AI infrastructure for robots, machines and other physical systems. The company did not disclose a valuation with the financing announcement.
Source - 2024-05-15 - Demonstration - Viam and Tennibot present autonomous tennis assistant robot at RacquetX
Tennibot unveiled the autonomous ball-collection robot at RacquetX in April 2024; it detects and retrieves tennis balls while moving around the court. Viam said the robot can save players and coaches up to 30% of the time otherwise spent collecting balls. Tennibot uses Viam to deploy software updates and synchronize fleet data for performance monitoring and remote diagnostics.
Source - 2024-04-15 - Partnership - Viam and KUKA launch software driver partnership for robot arms
The collaboration adds programming, data analytics, machine-learning pipeline and motion-service capabilities for KUKA arms. The partnership debuted at KUKA Connexions 2024 for North American system integrators and partners.
Source - 2024-03-26 - Funding - Viam raises USD 45M Series B for robotics software
Union Square Ventures and Battery Ventures participated as continuing investors. The financing brought Viam’s total funding to USD 87 million. The capital supports robot sensing, actuation, compute or communications systems as Viam moves toward broader commercial use.
Source - 2022-02-01 - Funding - Viam’s Series A brings disclosed capital to $42M
The Series A followed Viam’s $12 million seed round and brought cumulative disclosed funding to $42 million. The financing supported a modular software stack intended to make diverse robot hardware easier to program and manage. Viam framed the platform as infrastructure spanning local machines, cloud services and reusable components.
Source - 2021-06-29 - Funding - Union Square Ventures backs Viam’s $12M seed
Union Square Ventures backed the round, extending founder Eliot Horowitz’s prior relationship with USV from MongoDB. Viam said it was developing integrated hardware and software, pure software, cloud services and an open-source core. The company planned to expand engineering, design and developer-advocacy hiring with the financing.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Universal Robots
Marine Sanding Automation Partnership - Universal Robots and Viam partner on robotic marine sanding systems combining UR cobots with Viam software.
Context
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Context tags
- Autonomy software - Stack Layer - Viam provides a software platform for robot applications.
- Robotics component supply - Workflow - Viam is robotics infrastructure rather than a robot platform builder.