Azalea Robotics

Market context

Azalea Robotics develops autonomous mobile manipulators for airport baggage operations. Its ARC 1 platform uses vision-guided handling to load, unload, sort and track bags across belts, carts and unit load devices.

Facts

• Website: https://www.azalearobotics.com/
• HQ: Berkeley, California, United States
• Founded: 2023
• Segment: logistics automation
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2025-04-29 - Seed - $3.5M - Azalea Robotics raises $3.5M seed round - source: azalearobotics.com

Investors

• SOMA Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-29
• Vantage Futures - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-29
• Y Combinator - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-29
• Zero Infinity Partners - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2025-04-29

Events

• 2026-01-21 - Product Launch - Azalea Robotics introduces ARC 1 baggage manipulator - ARC 1 was designed to load bag carts and ULDs in existing airport bagroom setups. The system was rolling out in airports at launch without requiring additional safety infrastructure. The product gives Azalea Robotics a concrete offering for inspection, monito…
• 2025-04-29 - Funding - Azalea Robotics raises $3.5M seed round - Zero Infinity Partners led the round with participation from Vantage Futures, Y Combinator and SOMA Capital. The capital supported baggage-handling automation, AI and computer-vision development. The event adds component or software-stack context for robot se…

Team

• David Millard - Founder and CEO - Leads Azalea's airport ground-operations robotics program across baggage movement, AI automation and logistics integration.

Relationships

• Foxglove - Robot Observability Supplier - Foxglove supplies robot observability and data tooling used by Azalea Robotics.