Nyobolt raised $60 million in Series C funding on May 6, 2026 at a $1 billion valuation. The round was led by Symbotic, with participation from IQ Capital, Latitude, Scania Invest, and CBMM.

Nyobolt was founded in Cambridge in 2019 by Sai Shivareddy and Clare Grey, building on fast-charging battery research from the University of Cambridge. Its robotics relevance is not as a robot maker, but as a power layer for machines that lose productivity whenever they sit idle at a charger.

The Symbotic lead investment gives the round stronger robotics context. Symbotic uses autonomous warehouse robots that need high uptime and rapid energy replenishment, and Nyobolt says its technology is already being used in advanced autonomous robotics deployments. The company's product thesis is that high-power battery chemistry, battery management, and pack integration can reduce downtime for mobile robots, humanoids, and industrial machines.

Nyobolt's public technology claims include charging to 80% in under five minutes, millisecond response to power fluctuations, high power density, and long cycle life. In robotics, those attributes can change fleet design: smaller packs, fast top-ups, fewer battery swaps, and less idle time between work cycles.

The competitive field includes lithium-ion suppliers, fast-charge battery developers such as StoreDot and Echion Technologies, silicon-anode and high-density battery companies such as Sila and Enovix, supercapacitor systems, and robot OEMs building packs internally. Nyobolt's distinction is high-power, fast-charge chemistry aimed at commercial machines rather than only passenger EVs.

The Series C positions Nyobolt as infrastructure for physical AI uptime. As robots move from demos into fleets, the constraint is not only autonomy software or manipulation; it is whether the machine can stay productive through real shifts. Nyobolt is betting that fast charging becomes part of the robotics operating model.

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