Construction has long been one of the hardest industries to automate. Sites are messy, unstructured, and never quite the same from one job to the next. But a Munich-based startup called Sitegeist is taking that challenge head-on — and investors are taking notice.
The company has secured €4 million in a pre-seed funding round led by b2venture and OpenOcean, with participation from UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators and a group of angel investors including Verena Pausder, Lea-Sophie Cramer, and Alexander Schwörer, alongside strategic backers from the construction and robotics industries. The capital will go toward expanding the team and accelerating deployment of its robots on active construction sites.
Sitegeist, a spin-out from the Technical University of Munich’s robotics institute, focuses on a specific and grueling part of infrastructure maintenance — concrete renovation. Aging bridges, tunnels, parking structures, and public buildings across Europe are in urgent need of repair, and in Germany alone, the investment backlog runs into hundreds of billions of euros. Sitegeist is moving quickly to demonstrate that robotics can genuinely move the needle on one of Europe’s most pressing infrastructure challenges.
