PickNik

PickNik is a robot motion-planning software company behind MoveIt Pro. The company is tracked because its products or services directly support robotics, drones, autonomous systems or their supply chain.

Facts

Segment: Development Platform
Country: United States
Founded: 2015
Website: https://picknik.ai/

Funding

2023-10-12 - Pre-seed - $2M - PickNik raises $2M pre-seed round for MoveIt Studio - PickNik Robotics raised $2 million in pre-seed funding to further develop MoveIt Studio. - source: picknik.ai

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Investors

Stellar Ventures; Cypress Growth Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2023-10-12

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Market context

Comparable profiles and adjacent companies connected by shared workflow, capability, or stack position.

Open Robotics - stack adjacency - stack: Autonomy Software Platform
Flexion - stack adjacency - stack: Autonomy Software Platform
Covariant - stack adjacency - stack: Robot Learning Platforms

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Team

Dave Grant - CEO - Leads PickNik's commercial and operating direction for MoveIt Pro and robotic arm applications.
Jonathan Fries - Chief Operations Officer - Oversees operating execution for PickNik's robotics software delivery model.
Dave Coleman - Chief Product Officer & Founder - Shapes PickNik's product direction for MoveIt Pro and robot-agnostic manipulation software.

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Relations

Motiv Space Systems - Space Robotics Partner - PickNik and Motiv partnered on advanced robot-arm capabilities.
Cislunar Industries - Space Manufacturing Partner - PickNik and CisLunar collaborated on in-space metal processing.
RE2 Robotics - Mobile Manipulation Partner - PickNik and RE2 partnered on autonomous mobile manipulation.

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