Cyberwave, a Milan-based startup aiming to simplify AI-driven automation for manufacturing and logistics, has just closed a €7 million funding round led by United Ventures. The company bridges the gap between AI software and the complex physical hardware ecosystem. This challenge still keeps roughly 30% of manufacturing tasks manual amid a global labour crunch.
Founded earlier this year by Simone Di Somma and Vittorio Banfi, serial entrepreneurs with exits behind them (Askdata, acquired by SAP, and Botsociety, respectively), Cyberwave promises to radically shrink the barrier to automating physical machines.
The startup’s platform turns robots, drones, and sensors into programmable digital twins that developers can control with just a few lines of code. By combining a developer-friendly interface with a two-sided marketplace for hardware makers and developers, Cyberwave aims to democratise access to AI-driven robotics, much like GitHub democratised code collaboration or Hugging Face democratised AI models.
Their approach stands out in a market dominated by software-centric automation players, such as UiPath and Automation Anywhere, as well as hardware-centric startups like Veea and Soft Robotics.
Early pilots span automotive, construction, and logistics sectors, where customers are already leveraging the platform for tasks from assembly line defect rework to drone inspections. The company is now aggressively building out its developer ecosystem with plans to target the US market next, where post-pandemic industrial recovery is driving digitisation efforts.
Cyberwave’s fresh €7 million will fuel platform launch, ecosystem growth, and scaling industrial use cases. Behind the scenes, the founders are betting that by making machines as easy to program as software, they can accelerate the automation wave ready to disrupt manufacturing worldwide.
