Bengaluru-based robotic startup Mowito has secured $3 Mn (almost ₹28.6 Cr) in a pre-seed funding round led by Version One Ventures, with participation from All In Capital, Unisol and iSeed.
Angel investors including Thinking Machines Lab CTO Soumith Chintala, Foundry Robotics founder and CEO Adarsh Kulkarni, Coformer.ai cofounder and chief executive Ashish Kulkarni, and Better Capital founder and CEO Vaibhav Domkundwar also participated in the investment.
The startup plans to deploy the fresh capital to fuel its expansion into the United States, strengthen its engineering and go-to-market teams, scale deployments across automotive and electronics manufacturers and advance its physical AI platform.
“We believe robots should learn the same way people do: by observing and repeating. This funding allows us to accelerate that vision, expand globally, and bring Physical AI to more manufacturing environments,” Mowio cofounder and CEO Puru Rastog said.
Founded in 2024 by Rastogi and Adityanag Nagesh, Mowito is building AI models that run standard industrial robot arms. The startup’s physical AI enables these robots to learn from operators to perform new tasks directly on the factory floor rather than the necessity of traditional coding methods.
Mowito currently operates across Bengaluru and Detroit, supporting customers in automotive and electronics manufacturing.
The deeptech startup claimed that Mowito-powered robots currently operate on manufacturing lines at a Fortune 500 automotive company and at one of the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturers.
The development comes at a time when AI integration for efficient manufacturing use cases is pushing India towards independent production and aligning it with the rapidly growing technology.
Several startups which are leveraging AI to ease manufacturing are getting a lot of traction from the investors. For instance, deeptech manufacturing startup Ethereal Machines raised $28.5 Mn (about ₹272 Cr) in its Series B funding round in June, to expand its footprint in the US and Europe.
Meanwhile, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, at the CII Annual Business Summit 2026, said that global tech giant Google is “seriously” considering manufacturing AI servers in India. He also disclosed that while HP has already commenced production in the country, he has also requested other global companies to manufacture AI servers in India.
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