Union Square Ventures backs Viam’s $12M seed
Viam raised a $12 million seed round to build interoperable software and cloud infrastructure for robotics.
Evidence notes
- Union Square Ventures backed the round, extending founder Eliot Horowitz’s prior relationship with USV from MongoDB.
- Viam said it was developing integrated hardware and software, pure software, cloud services and an open-source core.
- The company planned to expand engineering, design and developer-advocacy hiring with the financing.
Company context
Viam provides software for building, deploying and managing robotics applications across heterogeneous hardware. Its platform gives developers SDKs, cloud management and machine APIs for moving robot applications from prototype to fleet operation.