PickNik

Market context

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

• Website: https://picknik.ai/
• HQ: Boulder, United States
• Founded: 2015
• Segment: Development Platform
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2023-10-12 - Pre-seed - $2M - PickNik raises $2M pre-seed round for MoveIt Studio - source: picknik.ai

Investors

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

Events

• 2023-10-12 - Funding - PickNik raises $2M pre-seed round for MoveIt Studio - Stellar Ventures and Cypress Growth Capital led the investment. The capital supported PickNik robotic arm software development. The event adds operating or commercial context for warehouse automation and material-handling robotics.

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.
• Nathan Brooks - Chief Technology Officer - Leads technical execution for PickNik's robot manipulation and autonomy software.

Context tags

• Autonomy software platform - Stack Layer - Profile QA supports Autonomy software platform.
• Robot learning platforms - Stack Layer - Profile QA supports Robot learning platforms.