KEWAZO company profile
KEWAZO builds robotic material lifts for construction and industrial sites. Its LIFTBOT system moves scaffolding parts and other materials vertically on job sites, reducing manual carrying and improving productivity in scaffold assembly and related workflows.
Facts
- Segment: Construction
- Country: Germany
- Founded: 2018
- Website: https://www.kewazo.com/
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Context tags
- Customers and deployments
- Record / Articles
- Sources
Summary
KEWAZO builds robotic material lifts for construction and industrial sites. Its LIFTBOT system moves scaffolding parts and other materials vertically on job sites, reducing manual carrying and improving productivity in scaffold assembly and related workflows.
Market context
KEWAZO is a useful edge-case builder because it sits between construction robotics and heavy-industry deployment rather than fitting cleanly into frontier humanoid or factory automation categories. It has real commercial traction in difficult field environments where labor availability, safety, and schedule overruns are acute. LIFTBOT lifting robot plus on-site analytics and service layer for plants, scaffolding, and capital projects.
- Capability: Vertical material transport and remote-controlled lifting On-site workflow data capture Industrial deployment support Maintenance and capital-project automation
- Strategic position: Construction robotics and heavy-industry field deployment Industrial workflow digitization in difficult field environments
Facts
- Website: https://www.kewazo.com/
- HQ: Garching bei München, Germany
- Founded: 2018
- Segment: Construction
- Known funding rounds: 1
Funding
- 2026-03-19 - Series A extension - $16M - KEWAZO raises $16M Series A extension led by Schooner Capital - source: businesswire.com
Investors
- Asahi Kasei - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- Atlas Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- Benson Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- Chevron Technology Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- Cybernetix Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- Gaingels - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- Mana Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- Schooner Capital - Lead - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
- True Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-03-19
Construction material-handling robot company
KEWAZO develops LIFTBOT, a battery-powered lifting robot that automates vertical material movement on construction and industrial sites.
- Target environment: Construction sites, scaffolding, industrial maintenance, turnarounds, capital projects and congested work areas.
- Deployment model: Lifting robot product deployment with site analytics, training, maintenance and support services.
- Customer context: Construction contractors, industrial facility operators, scaffold companies, maintenance teams and heavy-industry project managers.
- Workflow context: Vertical material movement, scaffold logistics, site data capture, crane replacement, material lifting and construction productivity tracking.
- Commercial maturity: Commercial deployment company with LIFTBOT operating across industrial facilities in North America and Europe.
- Market position: Construction robotics company focused on material handling and site digitization rather than 3D printing or inspection.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site access, safety certification, setup time, lifting requirements, crew workflow fit and project economics.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes construction robotics, material-handling robots, scaffold automation and site logistics analytics.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-03-19 - Funding - KEWAZO raises $16M Series A extension led by Schooner Capital - KEWAZO announced a new funding round led by Schooner Capital
- 2026-03-19 - Capability - KEWAZO presents LIFTBOT as a lifting robot replacing cranes and manual handling - KEWAZO positioned LIFTBOT as a robotic lifting system for vertical material movement
- 2026-03-19 - Deployment - LIFTBOT reaches deployment across more than 20 industrial sites in North America and Europe - KEWAZO said LIFTBOT is deployed at more than 20 industrial sites across North America and Europe
Team
- Artem Kuchukov - Co-Founder and CEO
- Eirini Psallida - Co-Founder and Head of Software - Adds technical founder context for KEWAZO's robotic control, construction-site automation and heavy-industry software layer.
- Heitor Gartner - North America President
Context tags
- Construction robot OEM - Stack Layer
- Construction material lift robotics - Peer Group
- Construction material lifting - Workflow
Customers and deployments
- Active Customer Sites - more than 20 industrial sites - 2026-03-19 - industrial sites in North America and Europe - scaffolding and industrial material handling - KEWAZO reported LIFTBOT deployments across more than 20…
Record / Articles
- 2026-03-19 - KEWAZO raises funding to expand LIFTBOT in heavy industry - KEWAZO’s new funding brings total capital to $35M, backing LIFTBOT deployments across refineries, petrochemical plants, chemical complexes, and po…
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