The round is co-led by b2venture (Florian Schweitzer & Marie Schwertner) and OpenOcean (Sam H.), with strong participation from UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators (Inga vom Holtz & Paolo Oppelt). This milestone was reached significantly earlier than anticipated, underscoring the urgent market demand for automation in the construction sector.
Additional backers include a powerhouse of business and industry leaders: Verena Pausder, Lea-Sophie Cramer, Alexander Schwörer, Mario Wettengel, Sven Degener, and Andreas Kupke, alongside strategic partners from the construction and robotics sectors. This investor group combines deep venture expertise in building category-defining technology with the industrial connections necessary to back long-term growth in heavy infrastructure.
Autonomous robotics for the infrastructure crisis
Across Europe, critical infrastructure is aging rapidly. Despite the scale of the problem, concrete renovation remains a manual, physically grueling process that is notoriously difficult to scale. This reliance on manual labor has become the primary bottleneck holding back the modernization and safety of our cities.
Sitegeist is resolving this bottleneck by developing the first AI-enabled modular robots designed to automate the toughest jobs on-site. By applying Physical AI, these systems combine visual perception and motion planning to operate in unpredictable, real-world construction environments. The goal is to transform the most demanding tasks into streamlined, automated processes that increase productivity while drastically improving working conditions for human crews.
A platform for modular on-site applications
Founded in Munich by Dr. Lena-Marie Pätzmann, Nicola Kolb, Julian Hoffmann, and Claus Carste, Sitegeist was built on the premise that hardware and software must be developed as a single, vertically integrated full-stack platform.
The momentum behind this funding round is a direct result of the founding team’s focus on creating “the Geist in the machine”—intelligent software that allows modular robots to adapt to the specific needs of bridges, tunnels, and buildings. Rather than requiring complex manual programming, the platform is designed for rapid deployment, allowing construction companies to integrate robotics into their existing workflows with minimal friction. This approach ensures that technology serves as a solution to the labor shortage, rather than an additional complexity for site managers.
Scaling deployments to meet surging demand
The current state of European infrastructure requires an unprecedented level of renovation. With a massive backlog of projects and a shrinking pool of skilled labor, the demand for Sitegeist’s technology is surging.
This capital will be strategically deployed to fuel two primary objectives:
- Building a world-class team: Sitegeist is actively recruiting engineers and visionaries dedicated to redefining an entire industry through robotics.
- Rapidly scaling on-site pilots: The company is accelerating its schedule for real-world testing to meet the immediate needs of infrastructure partners across the continent.
By bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI and the grit of the construction site, Sitegeist is setting the stage for a new era of automated, scalable, and safer infrastructure maintenance.