Swiss deeptech Jaipur Robotics raises $5.1M seed to automate waste-to-energy plants
What's the deal? Swiss deeptech startup Jaipur RoboticsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → has raised roughly $5.1 million (480,000,000 INR) in a seed round co-led by EquityPitcher VenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom → and High-Tech GründerfondsDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, with participation from existing investors. Founded in 2024 by Ermes Zamboni and Nikhil Prakash, the company builds AI-powered computer vision systems for waste-to-energy (WtE) plants.
What's the endgame? Its technology uses industrial cameras and sensors to monitor waste piles, flag hazardous or oversized objects, and alert crane operators before such material reaches a furnace. Now it wants to move from detection into crane automation.
What does it do? WtE plants store waste in bunkers that can hide concrete blocks, metal parts, and gas cylinders — material that can damage equipment and force costly shutdowns. Jaipur Robotics claims its models, trained on more than 50 million labelled waste images, detect hazardous material with up to 99% accuracy and analyse over 5 million tonnes of waste a year across 35-plus European facilities.
Where's the money going? The startup plans to scale the product, expand international sales, and grow its team. Crane automation is a key focus: rather than replacing cranes, it is building a software layer for existing infrastructure.
"We want to move from an object-detection company to a full-stack OS-type company for these facilities," Zamboni told Inc42.
India expansion: Europe remains its primary market, but Jaipur Robotics is now eyeing India. It already has an engineering team in Bengaluru and plans to set up an Indian legal entity by the end of 2026.
Total raised: The round takes the company's total funding to nearly $6 million. It previously raised $1 million in a 2025 pre-seed round led by TiVenturesDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, with participation from Techstars.
The signal: The round sits in roughly the 95th percentile by size among all-time seed rounds in Switzerland's energy sector, a sign of investor appetite for infrastructure that makes waste-to-energy plants safer and more autonomous.
Read more: inc42.com
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