Seegrid
About
About Seegrid
Seegrid's deployment work connects material-flow planning with vehicle routes and fleet control. Its team helps configure the routes, introduce the robots to the site and train staff, then supports the operating fleet. Different towing, pallet-truck and lift configurations handle the transfer of loads between production, storage and shipping workflows.
Supervisor software dispatches available robots, tracks material movements and manages traffic at shared intersections. It can connect to warehouse and manufacturing systems, reassign vehicles as demand changes and alert staff when a delivery finishes or a battery runs low. Map views show fleet status, while arrival estimates help workers anticipate incoming materials. These controls connect individual vehicle journeys to the timing of the wider facility.
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Products
Operations
Operating milestones
- Operating milestone
2025-06-24 - Seegrid reported that its autonomous mobile robots surpassed 17 million autonomous miles in customer facilities.
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Deployments
- Operating use
2026-05-06 - Seegrid AMRs reached 20 million autonomous miles in real-world customer production facilities. - Seegrid AMR customer production facilities
Source - Operating use
2026-05-06 - Seegrid solutions were live across more than 2,500 vehicles. - Seegrid live-production vehicle footprint
Source - Operating use
2026-05-06 - Seegrid solutions were live across more than 200 customer sites. - Seegrid live-production customer-site footprint
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Supply
Funding
- 2024-09-05 - Series D - $50M - Seegrid announces closing of $50M Series D investment
source: hub.seegrid.com
- 2022-08-09 - Series C - $30M - Seegrid raises $30M Series C
Seegrid raised a Series C led by repeat investors Giant Eagle and G2 Venture Partners. - source: bizjournals.com
- 2020-09-15 - Growth equity - $52M - Seegrid closes USD 52M growth-equity financing
Seegrid closed a USD 52 million growth-equity financing round to expand AMR production and product development. - source: hub.seegrid.com
Investors
- G2 Venture Partners - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2022-08-09 - latest 2024-09-05
- G2VP - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2020-09-15
- Giant Eagle - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-08-09
- ROBO Global Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-09-05
Team
- Chris Baker - Chief Executive Officer - Baker leads Seegrid autonomous vehicle strategy for modern industrial facilities and material-handling operations.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-05-06 - Deployment - Seegrid AMRs surpass 20 million autonomous miles in production facilities
AMRs reached 20 million autonomous miles in customer production facilities. The deployed footprint covered 2,500+ vehicles at 200+ customer sites. The deployment places The company's technology into warehouse automation and material-handling workflows beyond a lab-only setting.
Source - 2025-01-20 - Award - Seegrid Lift CR1 AMR named Modern Material Handling 2024 Readers' Choice Product of the Year
Seegrid announced that its Lift CR1 AMR was named Modern Material Handling's 2024 Readers' Choice Product of the Year. The company highlighted the CR1's heavier payload and higher lift configuration as key product differentiators. The award serves as external validation of Seegrid's newer autonomous lift truck line rather than a fresh product release.
Source - 2024-11-19 - Partnership - Seegrid joins Open Source Robotics Alliance
Seegrid joined the Open Source Robotics Alliance, an initiative of the Open Source Robotics Foundation. The company said the membership would let it contribute AMR expertise to the open-source robotics community and support broader autonomous-systems development. The move is best understood as an ecosystem and standards/community partnership rather than a product or deployment event.
Source - 2024-11-07 - Org Change - Seegrid terminates Raymond product and distribution agreements to focus on direct sales
Seegrid terminated its product and distribution agreements with Raymond Corporation as part of a go-to-market shift toward direct sales. The company said the change would support direct delivery of full automation solutions across the broader market. The event matters as a commercial-channel restructuring step tied to how Seegrid brings autonomous lift truck systems to market.
Source - 2024-09-05 - Funding - Seegrid announces closing of $50M Series D investment
Seegrid closed a $50 million Series D investment round to accelerate its autonomous lift truck market initiatives. The company said the round was funded by existing lead investors Giant Eagle Incorporated and G2 Venture Partners, along with smaller investments from other existing shareholders. Seegrid framed the financing around continued expansion of pallet material handling AMRs rather than a one-off product release.
Source - 2024-06-07 - Partnership - Seegrid joins the Mobile Automation Group of MHI
Seegrid joined the Mobile Automation Group, an MHI industry group focused on advancing mobile automation and robotics in material handling. The company framed the membership as a way to contribute its AMR expertise to wider industry development and standards discussions. This was an ecosystem-level partnership move rather than a customer deployment or product launch.
Source - 2024-02-27 - Product Launch - Seegrid launches Autonomous Buffer Management solution
Seegrid launched Autonomous Buffer Management as a workflow software layer for automating inbound, outbound, and work-in-progress buffer movements with its Lift AMR solutions. The company described the system as a comprehensive buffer-management solution for warehouses, manufacturing, and logistics facilities. The launch is notable as a software-and-orchestration expansion on top of Seegrid's autonomous lift truck hardware base.
Source - 2024-02-15 - Product Launch - Seegrid unveils Lift CR1 autonomous lift truck at MODEX 2024
Seegrid debuted the Lift CR1 at MODEX 2024 as a new autonomous lift truck for higher lift heights and heavier payloads. The company positioned the CR1 as an expansion of its lift truck portfolio for warehousing, manufacturing, and logistics workflows. The launch extended Seegrid's pallet material handling stack beyond its earlier lift truck products into higher-reach applications.
Source - 2022-10-20 - Partnership - Seegrid and Koops partner on autonomous material handling
Koops will introduce its customers to Seegrid’s Palion autonomous mobile robot portfolio and Fleet Central enterprise software as part of its custom automation systems. The named Palion solutions include Lift, Pallet Truck and Tow Tractor configurations, while Fleet Central builds on Seegrid’s Fleet Geek and Supervisor software. The partnership combines Koops’ manufacturing-automation integration work with Seegrid’s material-handling robots and fleet-management software for customer projects.
Source - 2022-08-09 - Funding - Seegrid raises $30M Series C
Giant Eagle, Seegrid's majority owner, and G2 Venture Partners led the financing. Both lead investors had backed Seegrid before the Series C. The funding was reported while Seegrid was expanding into additional operating space and adjusting its workforce.
Source - 2020-10-06 - Acquisition - Seegrid acquires Box Robotics
Box Robotics brought mobile robotics perception and mapping technology to Seegrid. The acquisition supported Seegrid development of situational awareness for self-driving industrial vehicles.
Source - 2020-09-15 - Funding - Seegrid closes USD 52M growth-equity financing
The round brought Seegrid total funding to more than USD 150 million. The financing followed a first USD 25 million tranche led by G2VP earlier in 2020. Seegrid said the capital would expand hiring, accelerate new-product development and support potential strategic acquisitions.
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Notes
Profile notes
- Seegrid survived Chapter 11 through customer-led recapitalisation before becoming a scaled AMR vendor
reviewed 2026-07-20 - Seegrid entered Chapter 11 in 2009 after its original financing model failed. Giant Eagle, already a customer and investor, provided the route out and became controlling owner, allowing the vision-guided vehicle business to continue. Today's fleet reflects a real operating recovery, not uninterrupted corporate stability.
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Relations
Relationships
- Koops
AMR Systems Integration Partner - Koops integrates Seegrid autonomous mobile robots and fleet software into custom manufacturing automation systems.
- Open Source Robotics Alliance
Partner - Seegrid joined the Open Source Robotics Alliance in Nov 2024.
