# Rapid Robotics: robotics company

Canonical ID: `83caeb9c-ff3e-46db-8fd7-adf73540a645`

## Key facts

- **HQ:** San Francisco, CA, United States
- **Founded:** 2019
- **Focus:** Factory automation with turnkey robotic work cells for machine tending, palletizing, picking and packing
- **Technology:** Robot arms combined with operating software
- **Stage:** Assets acquired by Germany's RobCo in September 2025; ceased operating as an independent company
- **Co-founders:** Kretchmer, Ruddick Lawrence
- **Funding:** 6.7M (Kleiner Perkins, Tiger Global)
- **Products:** Robotic work cells (machine tending, palletizing, packing)

- **Slug:** rapid-robotics
- **Status:** active
- **Founded:** 2019
- **HQ:** San Francisco, CA
- **Funding total (USD):** 36700000

## Models

_No models registered._

## Supplies to

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## Common questions

### What is Rapid Robotics?

San Francisco-based factory-automation company that built turnkey robotic work cells for machine tending, palletizing, packing, and kitting across manufacturing industries. Founded by Kretchmer and co-founder Ruddick Lawrence, Rapid Robotics developed a robotic machine operator designed to help manufacturers avoid offshoring by deploying affordable automation. The company raised 6.7M led by Kleiner Perkins and Tiger Global.

### What does Rapid Robotics make?

Rapid Robotics has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Rapid Robotics builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them.

### Is Rapid Robotics publicly traded?

Rapid Robotics is not independently listed on public markets; it is part of Germany's RobCo in September 2025 on the DEPLOY registry.

### How can I invest in Rapid Robotics?

Rapid Robotics has no separately traded stock; it is owned by Germany's RobCo in September 2025 (the parent is the entity that trades, where it is public).

### Where is Rapid Robotics headquartered?

Rapid Robotics is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

### How much funding has Rapid Robotics raised?

Rapid Robotics has raised approximately $37M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Who owns Rapid Robotics?

Rapid Robotics is owned by Germany's RobCo in September 2025, per the DEPLOY registry.

### Is Rapid Robotics a top robotics company?

On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Rapid Robotics ranks in roughly the top 56% of companies tracked by the registry.

### When was Rapid Robotics founded?

Rapid Robotics was founded in 2019.


## Sources (1)

1. https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250909601076/en/

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