Facts

• Segment: Industrial
• Country: Switzerland
• Founded: 2016
• Website: https://www.kemaro.ch/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Facts
• Funding
• Investors
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Team
• Supply chain relationships
• Relationships
• Context tags
• Sources

Summary

KEMARO develops autonomous dry-cleaning robots for industrial and logistics facilities. Its K900 robot sweeps large indoor spaces using lidar navigation, dust extraction and map-based operation, reducing manual cleaning work in warehouses and production halls.

Market context

KEMARO is a scaled industrial service-robotics company with more than 1,500 robots reported worldwide and a clear U. S. expansion path. Its dry-cleaning approach avoids water, chemicals, and camera-heavy data capture, giving it a practical wedge in industrial environments with privacy and contamination concerns. KEMARO AG (Switzerland); reported founders Armin Koller, Thomas Oberholzer, Martin Gadient.

• Capability: Autonomous industrial sweeping
• Capability: debris/dust removal
• Capability: LiDAR navigation
• Capability: fleet monitoring
• Capability: dry cleaning without water or chemicals
• Strategic position: Industrial cleaning robotics
• Strategic position: autonomous factory maintenance
• Strategic position: warehouse/production cleaning
• Strategic position: privacy-preserving service robotics

Facts

• Website: https://www.kemaro.ch/
• HQ: Eschlikon, Thurgau, Switzerland
• Founded: 2016
• Segment: Industrial
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-04-23 - Series B pre-close - $5M - KEMARO pre-closes USD 5 million Series B round to expand U.S. operations and product portfolio - source: pressebox.com

Investors

• Spicehaus Partners - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-04-23

KEMARO role in industrial cleaning robotics

KEMARO develops autonomous dry-cleaning robots for industrial environments including factories, logistics centers, production plants, and warehouses. Its K900 and K700 robots are built for debris-heavy spaces where dust, shavings, and waste can affect worker safety, machine uptime, and operating costs. KEMARO is a scaled industrial service-robotics company with more than 1,500 robots reported worldwide and a clear U. S. expansion path. Its dry-cleaning approach avoids water, chemicals, and camera-heavy data capture, giving it a practical wedge in industrial environments with privacy and contamination concerns.

• Target environment: Robot electronics, embedded compute, sensing, power, storage, communication hardware and industrial automation systems.
• Deployment model: Service-robotics model built around autonomous cleaning hardware, fleet use and recurring industrial facility workflows.
• Customer context: Manufacturers, logistics operators, production plants, warehouses and facility teams.
• Workflow context: Floor cleaning, debris removal, factory upkeep, warehouse cleaning, route management and facilities operations.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial industrial cleaning-robot company with reported multi-country deployment and a specialized dry-cleaning wedge for factories and warehouses.
• Market position: Industrial service-robotics company focused on autonomous dry-cleaning robots for factories, warehouses and logistics spaces.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on cleaning reliability, debris handling, safety, maintenance, facility fit and proof of operating-cost reduction.
• Adjacent context: Embedded compute, sensors, RF, storage, memory, power electronics, batteries, semiconductors and robot control hardware.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-04-23 - Funding - KEMARO pre-closes USD 5 million Series B round to expand U.S. operations and product portfolio - KEMARO secured USD 5 million in an initial pre-closing of its Series B financing round.
• 2026-04-23 - Facility Opening - KEMARO establishes U.S. subsidiary and opens first U.S. office in Atlanta - KEMARO established KEMARO Inc. as its U.S. subsidiary.

Team

• Sandro Pisaturo - Co-Founder and CEO
• Armin Koller - Founder | CEO
• Thomas Oberholzer - Founder | CSO
• Martin Gadient - Founder | Strategic Partnerships & Innovation

Supply chain relationships

• igus - drylin linear guides, shafts and bearings - igus says drylin linear guides, shafts, plain bearings and flange bearings play a crucial role in the mechanics of KEMARO K900 cleaning robots.

Relationships

• Series B investor - Spicehaus Partners participated in KEMARO's Series B pre-closing financing.

Context tags

• Industrial cleaning robotics - Peer Group - KEMARO builds autonomous industrial cleaning robots for factories.
• Autonomous industrial cleaning - Workflow - KEMARO robots perform autonomous cleaning in industrial settings.
• Facility maintenance robotics - Workflow - KEMARO supports facility cleaning and maintenance workflows.
• Industrial cleaning robot OEM - Stack Layer - KEMARO builds complete industrial cleaning robot systems.
• Service robot builder - Peer Group - KEMARO provides service robotics for commercial environments.
• Service robot OEM - Stack Layer - KEMARO provides commercial service robot systems.
• Autonomous navigation - Capability - KEMARO robots navigate autonomously.
• Warehouses - Customer Environment - KEMARO robots operate in warehouse environments.
• Factory automation cells - Customer Environment - KEMARO robots are deployed in factory automation cells.
• Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - KEMARO has commercial industrial cleaning robot deployments.