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Key facts
Focus
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Data & sources
Web sources
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Viam on the deployment map
Where Viam's robots are verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Eliot Horowitz Founder & CEOsince 2020-01-01secondary-verified
Founders (1)
- Eliot Horowitzsolefounded 2020-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Viam.
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
Viam in third-party press
Tech Mahindra partners with Viam to scale advanced robotics - Evertiq
Tech Mahindra Limited and Viam, Inc. Partner to Scale Advanced Robotics and Automation Solutions - marketscreener.com
Tech Mahindra and Viam partner to scale advanced robotics and automation solutions - PR Newswire
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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.
Funding rounds (3)
- Series B2024-03-26
$45M(reported)
Investors: Union Square Ventures, Battery Ventures
- Series A2022-02-01
$30M(reported)
Investors: Tiger Global Management (lead), Union Square Ventures, Battery Ventures
- Seed2021-06-01
$12M(reported)
Investors: Union Square Ventures (lead)
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Review status verifiedVerifiedJun 20, 2026
unreviewed -> reverified
- Record createdJun 8, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (1)
Common questions
- What is Viam?
- Open-source platform for building, monitoring, and managing smart machines and robots. Eliot Horowitz (MongoDB founder).
- What does Viam make?
- Viam has no robot models recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Viam builds robot foundation models or autonomy software.
- Who is the CEO of Viam?
- Eliot Horowitz is the ceo of Viam, per the DEPLOY registry.
- Where is Viam headquartered?
- Viam is headquartered in New York, NY.
- Is Viam a top robotics company?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, Viam ranks in roughly the top 9% of companies tracked by the registry.
- Is Viam safe?
- Viam has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-14
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-14
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Viam.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Viam from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Tech Mahindra partners with Viam to scale advanced robotics - Evertiq
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Tech Mahindra Limited and Viam, Inc. Partner to Scale Advanced Robotics and Automation Solutions - marketscreener.com
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Tech Mahindra and Viam partner to scale advanced robotics and automation solutions - PR Newswire
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Tech Mahindra partners with Viam to scale advanced robotics - scanx.trade
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Viam software to enable UR cobots for industrial applications - The Robot Report
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Viam Partners with Universal Robots on Industrial Automation Systems - PR Newswire
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Why this startup wants more engineers playing with robots - Tech Brew
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Setup & Teleop SO-101 Arm from Anywhere - Hackster.io
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Control a Yahboom DOFBOT arm with Viam - Hackster.io
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Viam raises $30M to scale robotics development platform - The Robot Report
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Viam announces a $30 Million Series C to continue advancing the power of data and AI in the physical world - PR Newswire
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Viam and Tennibot Present World's First Autonomous Tennis Assistant Robot at RacquetX Conference in Miami - PR Newswire
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/viam.md
- RSS feed: /companies/viam/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/4ae98622-741d-473c-ad71-e34814e1ea52
- Revision history: /companies/viam/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Viam against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to 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: Jul 23, 2026