The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Active Ants: 1 model. 1 source back the record.
CategoryWarehouse & Logistics Robotics
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Regional ecosystem
Active Ants is one of 31 verified robotics companies in the Netherlands →
Key facts
Focus
Scale
Robot
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
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Every company Active Ants has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Active Ants on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Bram Blondé CEOsecondary-verified
- Jeroen Dekker Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Jeroen Dekkerno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Active Ants.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Active Ants in third-party press
Zalando invests in Sereact, a warehouse robotics specialist - FashionNetwork - The World's Fashion Business News
BMW and PepsiCo robotics partner Sereact raises €93 million Series B to scale across the US - EU-Startups
Sereact Raises $26 Million for AI Warehouse Robotics Efforts - PYMNTS.com
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
5 total · 5 operating
Every company Active Ants has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
All 5 partnerships
open in the atlas →- active-ants x nvidiawithNVIDIA1110technology—operating
- active-ants x awswithAWS976technology—operating
- Active Ants x Dell TechnologieswithDell Technologiestechnology—operating
- Active Ants x AutoStorewithAutoStoredeployment—operating
- Active Ants x SwisslogwithSwisslogdeployment—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 11, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2015
Active Ants AMR at Vianen, Netherlands
Sources (1)
- GreyOrange Deploys Smart Zone Transfer Capabilities within Active Ants e-Fulfillment Warehouse in The Netherlands · https://www.greyorange.com/press-release/greyorange-deploys-smart-zone-transfer-capabilities-within-active-ants-e-fulfillment-warehouse-in-the-netherlands/ · 2020-12-07
Common questions
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Active Ants.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Active Ants from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Zalando invests in Sereact, a warehouse robotics specialist - FashionNetwork - The World's Fashion Business News
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BMW and PepsiCo robotics partner Sereact raises €93 million Series B to scale across the US - EU-Startups
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Sereact Raises $26 Million for AI Warehouse Robotics Efforts - PYMNTS.com
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Active Ants and Oriflame partnership seeks faster processing times for beauty products - Packaging Europe
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Rise of the robots raises a big question: what will workers do? - theguardian.com
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Revolutionary robots working alongside humans at Northampton e-fulfilment site - Northants Live
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Active Ants launches first UK e-fulfilment centre - Logistics Manager
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Northampton: Warehouse uses robots to help staff shortage - BBC
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ABB and Covariant Partner to Deploy Integrated AI Robotic Solutions - ABB
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/active-ants.md
- RSS feed: /companies/active-ants/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/49c93572-8d9b-47fa-9d3c-ac5bd5b015a6
- Revision history: /companies/active-ants/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Heat Index
Serious60/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Active Ants draws attention at the 8th percentile but verifies reality at the 12th percentile among AMRs. Hype Gap -3.9, 39th widest among AMRs.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 1 verified deployment. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 27, 2026