sewts
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About sewts
VELUM uses cameras and AI perception to identify grasp points on crumpled towels emerging from an industrial dryer. A robot lifts the item, determines its orientation and presents it flat to the feeder of an existing folding machine. This closes one of the remaining manual gaps within otherwise highly automated commercial-laundry operations.
The system combines industrial arms, textile-specific grippers and motion planning that adapts to different shapes and fabric presentations. sewts delivered its first production VELUM installation to Greif Textile Mietsysteme in 2022 and is extending the same deformable-material intelligence through JUPITER into returns handling, sorting and recycling. The company supplies a complete robotic cell around the customer’s established laundry or textile process.
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Funding
- 2023-08-09 - Series A - $8.2M - sewts raises EUR7M Series A for textile automation
sewts closed a EUR7 million Series A round to expand robotics and automation for the textile industry. - source: htgf.de
Investors
- APEX Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-09
- Bayern Kapital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-09
- CNB Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-09
- Emerald Technology Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-09
- EquityPitcher Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-09
- HTGF - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-09
- Nabtesco Technology Venture - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-08-09
Timeline
Events
- 2023-08-09 - Funding - sewts raises EUR7M Series A for textile automation
The round included Emerald Technology Ventures, CNB Capital, EquityPitcher Ventures and Nabtesco Technology Venture. The capital supported VELUM and industrial laundry automation growth. The capital supports commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows as sewts moves from product development toward broader commercial use.
Source - 2023-01-25 - Deployment - sewts delivers first VELUM system to Greif Textile Mietsysteme
The VELUM system was operating in an industrial laundry and feeding towels into folding machines. sewts framed the delivery as market entry for its first series-ready robotic product. The deployment places The company's technology into commercial automation and autonomous-system workflows beyond a lab-only setting.
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