German AI robotics startup Sereact has raised a $110 million Series B led by Headline to scale Cortex 2.0, its next-generation vision-language-action model, and open its first U.S. office in Boston. The round was announced on April 27, 2026.
Headline Leads, Existing Backers Pile In
The financing was led by Headline, with new investors Bullhound Capital, Daphni and Felix Capital joining alongside returning backers Air Street Capital, Creandum and Point Nine. Sereact said the round brings total capital raised to more than $140 million, a more than four-times step-up from its Series A in January 2025.
Cortex 2.0 Adds a World Model to a VLA Brain
Sereact's Cortex 2.0 augments a vision-language-action policy with a learned world model. The robot generates candidate trajectories, simulates them against expected physics, and scores them for stability, risk and efficiency before committing to a motion. The Stuttgart-based company says that shift from “try-and-see” to “plan-and-try” is what unlocks contact-rich tasks such as assembling components under tension, placing windshield wipers and kitting parts into precise orientations.
Over 200 Systems, More Than 1 Billion Picks
The company says more than 200 Sereact systems are live across Europe, making it the most deployed AI picking robot vendor in the world. Together they have completed more than 1 billion production picks, with only roughly one in 53,000 requiring remote human intervention. Customers include BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler Truck, PepsiCo, Austrian Post, Active Ants, MS Direct and Rohlik Group.
Boston Beachhead for US Push
With its first U.S. office in Boston, Sereact plans to hire commercial, application and engineering staff locally to chase American retailers and manufacturers. The company is also extending Cortex from single-arm picking cells to dual-arm returns stations, humanoid robots and Sereact Lens, its 3D perception system for inventory and quality control.
Why It Matters
The Sereact round is one of the largest European warehouse-robotics rounds of 2026 and underscores investor conviction that physical AI software, not hardware, is the defensible layer in industrial automation. The deal lands as data-infrastructure startups race to build the real-world picking datasets that power foundation models, and as warehouse-automation rivals such as Stord and Figure AI deployments push deeper into US fulfillment.
Reporting based on coverage from Sereact's official announcement, TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Tech.eu.