Vention
Vention provides a cloud-based manufacturing automation platform for designing, ordering, deploying and operating factory equipment. Its system combines modular hardware, engineering software, robot cells and automation services for manufacturers, integrators and research labs.
Market context
Vention lowers the barrier to industrial automation by enabling faster design-to-deployment cycles. Represents a scalable approach to automation infrastructure rather than single-purpose robotic systems.
Facts
- Website: https://vention.io
- HQ: Montreal, Canada
- Founded: 2016
- Segment: Development Platform
- Known funding rounds: 2
Investors
- Bain Capital Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-27
- Bolt Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-27
- Export Development Canada (EDC) - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-27
- Fidelity Investment Canada ULC - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-27
- Fonds de solidarité FTQ - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-27
- Georgian - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-27
- White Star Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-27
Modular manufacturing automation platform
Vention provides a cloud-based manufacturing automation platform for designing, ordering, deploying and operating modular robotic equipment.
- Target environment: Factories, end-of-line packaging cells, machine-tending systems, conveyors, palletizing areas and modular automation workcells.
- Deployment model: Full-stack automation platform combining cloud design software, modular hardware, robot integrations and deployment tools.
- Customer context: Manufacturers, automation engineers, integrators, packaging teams and companies building custom production equipment.
- Workflow context: Machine design, robot cell configuration, end-of-line automation, conveying, palletizing, simulation and deployment.
- Commercial maturity: Commercial industrial automation platform with thousands of machines and factories using its modular automation ecosystem.
- Market position: Manufacturing automation infrastructure company simplifying design and deployment of robotic production systems.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on application complexity, hardware compatibility, engineering support, software usability and customer willingness to standardize on modular systems.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes modular automation, robot range extenders, gantries, conveyors, machine tending and physical AI for factories.
- Source confidence: high
Team
- Etienne Lacroix - Founder & CEO
Supply chain relationships
- FANUC - Robot Integration Partner - Vention integrated FANUC robots with its MachineMotion AI and MachineLogic automation ecosystem.
- Yaskawa Electric Corporation - Mounting Plates, Stands And Workstations Compatibility - Yaskawa says Vention offers mounting plates, stands and workstations compatible with Smart Series robots.
Relationships
- Luxonis - Perception Supplier - Luxonis supplies OAK-D Pro PoE camera perception hardware for Vention AI Operator robot-arm workflows.
Articles
- 2026-01-28 - Vention is building MachineMotion controllers into a factory automation control layer - A 110 million dollar Series D, 30-motor EtherCAT chaining, and over-the-air update paths anchor Vention's MachineMotio…
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