SoftBank Robotics Europe

SoftBank Robotics Europe, formerly Aldebaran Robotics, designs and manufactures humanoid robots for education, research, health, distribution, tourism, business applications, and home use. The company serves customers worldwide and focuses on interactive robotics that assist professionals and individuals. Founded in 2005, it is based in Paris, France, with additional offices in France, Japan, the United States, and China, and operates as a subsidiary of SoftBank Group.

Karim Abouzahr

Director, SoftBank Europe Ventures

Kristin Bannon

Lee Bocker

Jonathan Bullock

John Cassidy

Tom Cheung

Serena Dayal

Angela Du

Colin Fan

Ted Fike

Ronald Fisher

Kunihiro Fujinaga

Eric Gan

Navneet Govil

Ayush Jain

Lydia Jett

Sumer Juneja

Gosia Karas

Eylul Kayin

Chris Lee

Jordan Levy

Amit Lubovsky

Jimi Macdonald

Director

Kentaro Matsui

Ken Miyauchi

Greg Moon

Karol Niewiadomski

Shu Nyatta

Managing Partner

Max Ohrstrand

Vikas Parekh

Ben Parton

Paulo Passoni

Yanni Pipilis

Narendra Rathi

Brett Rochkind

Brett Rochkind

Managing Partner

Priya Saiprasad

Ron Schreiber

Alex Szapiro

Ram Trichur

Ervin Tu

Munish Varma

Aaron Wong

Tim Yap

Kenichi Yoshida

Chief Business Officer and Executive Vice President

Linda Yu

Andrew Zloto

Past deals in Transport and logistics

Trela

Series A in 2022
Trela is a consumer app and grocery service based in Brazil, recognized for having the highest Net Promoter Score (NPS) in the country and globally. The company's mission is to promote healthier eating by curating high-quality food and beverage products while minimizing waste through an efficient just-in-time supply chain. Trela serves as a comprehensive source for healthy groceries in São Paulo, offering delivery services at competitive prices. Additionally, the company has developed a collective purchasing platform that allows friends and neighbors to shop together, leveraging social connections through messaging apps to secure discounts on their purchases. This innovative approach connects producers and consumers, facilitating access to affordable and fresh products for households.

Laika

Series B in 2022
Laika is an e-commerce platform specializing in a wide range of products and services for pets. The company provides over 4,000 product options, including food, snacks, medications, and accessories. In addition to these offerings, Laika features a services section with more than 17 different services, encompassing healthcare, grooming, and entertainment for pets. With a focus on convenience, Laika delivers all items directly to customers' homes, allowing them to select preferred delivery dates and times, including same-day delivery in major cities. The platform supports various payment methods, ensuring a seamless shopping experience for pet owners seeking to meet their pets' needs.

Flock Freight

Series D in 2021
Flock Freight is a technology-driven freight logistics company that pools less-than-truckload shipments into full-truckload movements to improve efficiency and reduce costs across North America. Its FlockDirect hubless pooling solution uses algorithms to combine multiple LTL and partial-truckload shipments into a single full-truckload, enabling direct routes that typically avoid terminals and extra handoffs. The company also provides a software platform that coordinates pooling of shipments into multi-stop itineraries, optimizing routing and load consolidation for shippers and carriers. By aligning the interests of shippers and carriers, Flock Freight aims to deliver reliable, damage-free, on-time service at lower cost for mid-market and enterprise customers, supported by ongoing technology development and scale.

Sendcloud

Series C in 2021
SendCloud is a shipping platform designed for online retailers. It connects businesses to multiple shipping carriers, streamlining processes like label creation, tracking, and returns. The platform is easy to implement, taking just five minutes of a webshop's time. By optimizing the full shipping journey, from checkout to returns, SendCloud helps businesses save time and money, while also potentially increasing conversion rates at checkout.

Gopuff

Series H in 2021
Founded in 2013 by Drexel University students Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, Gopuff is a pioneering instant commerce platform that delivers essential products directly to consumers' doorsteps. Its extensive product range includes over-the-counter medicine, baby food, cleaning supplies, snacks, beverages, and select alcoholic drinks, ensuring customers can satisfy their needs and cravings promptly.

NetraDyne

Series C in 2021
NetraDyne is a provider of AI-driven fleet safety and management technology that uses computer vision and edge computing to process visual and sensory inputs for fleets across industries such as transportation, drones, agriculture, construction, and healthcare. The company offers an integrated platform that supports multiple camera angles for driver safety events and AI-based safety solutions, along with a driver performance monitoring system that identifies and rewards positive behavior. Its solutions reduce accidents, improve real-time awareness of risky behavior, and safeguard against false claims by delivering timely insights. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, with an additional office in Bengaluru, NetraDyne integrates machine learning with edge processing to deliver actionable data to fleet operators.

Gopuff

Series G in 2021
Founded in 2013 by Drexel University students Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, Gopuff is a pioneering instant commerce platform that delivers essential products directly to consumers' doorsteps. Its extensive product range includes over-the-counter medicine, baby food, cleaning supplies, snacks, beverages, and select alcoholic drinks, ensuring customers can satisfy their needs and cravings promptly.

Flock Freight

Series C in 2020
Flock Freight is a technology-driven freight logistics company that pools less-than-truckload shipments into full-truckload movements to improve efficiency and reduce costs across North America. Its FlockDirect hubless pooling solution uses algorithms to combine multiple LTL and partial-truckload shipments into a single full-truckload, enabling direct routes that typically avoid terminals and extra handoffs. The company also provides a software platform that coordinates pooling of shipments into multi-stop itineraries, optimizing routing and load consolidation for shippers and carriers. By aligning the interests of shippers and carriers, Flock Freight aims to deliver reliable, damage-free, on-time service at lower cost for mid-market and enterprise customers, supported by ongoing technology development and scale.

Gopuff

Venture Round in 2020
Founded in 2013 by Drexel University students Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, Gopuff is a pioneering instant commerce platform that delivers essential products directly to consumers' doorsteps. Its extensive product range includes over-the-counter medicine, baby food, cleaning supplies, snacks, beverages, and select alcoholic drinks, ensuring customers can satisfy their needs and cravings promptly.

Gopuff

Venture Round in 2019
Founded in 2013 by Drexel University students Yakir Gola and Rafael Ilishayev, Gopuff is a pioneering instant commerce platform that delivers essential products directly to consumers' doorsteps. Its extensive product range includes over-the-counter medicine, baby food, cleaning supplies, snacks, beverages, and select alcoholic drinks, ensuring customers can satisfy their needs and cravings promptly.

CBcloud

Series B in 2019
CBcloud is a Tokyo-based logistics platform that matches shippers with drivers through a crowd-sourcing style network. Founded in 2012, the company leverages technology to transform delivery operations, solve transportation challenges, and optimize efficiency while improving the working environment for drivers. Its platform provides software that facilitates, automates, and enhances collaboration across the logistics chain, enabling shippers to access new services, improving service quality for customers, and creating a more convenient and transparent logistics experience.

Fetch Robotics

Series C in 2019
Fetch Robotics, Inc. is a San Jose, California-based company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of autonomous mobile robot solutions tailored for the warehousing and intralogistics sectors. Founded in 2014, the company leverages its expertise in robotics to deliver reliable and safe collaborative autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for applications such as material handling and data collection. Fetch Robotics offers a comprehensive suite of products, including its Fetch cloud robotics platform, the VirtualConveyor for material transport, and DataSurvey for data collection. These solutions are designed to enhance productivity in commercial and industrial environments by streamlining workflows, increasing efficiency, and reducing operational costs.

Fetch Robotics

Series B in 2017
Fetch Robotics, Inc. is a San Jose, California-based company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of autonomous mobile robot solutions tailored for the warehousing and intralogistics sectors. Founded in 2014, the company leverages its expertise in robotics to deliver reliable and safe collaborative autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for applications such as material handling and data collection. Fetch Robotics offers a comprehensive suite of products, including its Fetch cloud robotics platform, the VirtualConveyor for material transport, and DataSurvey for data collection. These solutions are designed to enhance productivity in commercial and industrial environments by streamlining workflows, increasing efficiency, and reducing operational costs.

Fetch Robotics

Series A in 2015
Fetch Robotics, Inc. is a San Jose, California-based company that specializes in the development and manufacturing of autonomous mobile robot solutions tailored for the warehousing and intralogistics sectors. Founded in 2014, the company leverages its expertise in robotics to deliver reliable and safe collaborative autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) for applications such as material handling and data collection. Fetch Robotics offers a comprehensive suite of products, including its Fetch cloud robotics platform, the VirtualConveyor for material transport, and DataSurvey for data collection. These solutions are designed to enhance productivity in commercial and industrial environments by streamlining workflows, increasing efficiency, and reducing operational costs.

Kuaidi Dache

Series D in 2015
Kuaidi Group, as the most technologically integrated and largest car service company in the world, is rapidly transforming the concept of moving people – starting in China. The app combines integrated mapping and third party payment technology to make its service accessible to everybody, and provides over 1 million taxis and a variety of standard and luxury cars for all lifestyles. To ensure the service fits smoothly into urban life, Kuaidi has developed a framework is that is adaptable to other platforms in China, and works in partnership with China’s government and regulators instead of against them. In a country where only 18% of per capita car ownership, Kuaidi is clearly meeting an important need. Kuaidi’s unique business model has attracted 100m registered users in over 300 cities, fulfilling 6 million requests per day. To optimize its services and go beyond customer expectations Kuaidi has secured partnerships with Alipay, Ctrip, AutoNavi, Baidu Maps, Qunar, and Beijing’s ‘96106’ government official platform.
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