Budapest-based robotics startup Allonic has raised a record $7.2m pre-seed round led by Visionaries Club and backed by angels from OpenAI and Hugging Face.
👯 Founders: Benedek Tasi (CEO), Dávid Pelyva (CTO), David Holló (CPO)
📅 Founding year: 2021
🏭 Industry: Robotics manufacturing
💥 Problem: Robotic intelligence is advancing rapidly, but robot bodies are still slow, expensive, and complex to manufacture. Manual assembly of hundreds of precision parts limits scalability, customization, cost reduction, and innovation across the robotics industry.
📣 Solution: A fully automated manufacturing platform using proprietary 3D Tissue Braiding, which 3D-weaves robotic “tissues” over skeletal cores—eliminating manual assembly and enabling fast, scalable, and customizable production of complex robotic bodies.
👥 Customers: Robotics manufacturers, industrial automation companies, electronics manufacturers, humanoid robotics companies, research institutions, and consumer technology companies.
🌱 Stage: Pre-seed
💰 Investment amount: $7.2M (€6.12M)
🚀 Funded by: Visionaries Club (lead), Day One Capital, Prototype, SDAC Ventures, TinyVC, plus angel investors from OpenAI, Hugging Face, ETH Zurich, and Northwestern University.
👁️🗨️ Investor’s perspective:
“Robotics has reached a tipping point. The gap between sophisticated, AI-driven software and slow hardware manufacturing is now a limiting factor
for the entire industry. Allonic is the first company I’ve seen to address this problem at the infrastructure layer. By rethinking how robotic bodies are built from scratch, they open the door to faster iteration, lower costs, and robots that will finally be able to move beyond narrow industrial use cases.”— Marton Sarkadi Nagy, Partner at Visionaries Club
💡 It will be spent on: Accelerating development of the 3D Tissue Braiding platform, expanding engineering and operations teams, and supporting pilot projects and early commercial deployments with industrial partners.
💬 In their own words:
“The trade-offs between durability and softness, dexterity and strength have always been dictated by the limits of manufacturing. We are removing those constraints and building a platform that allows robotics teams to design, build and iterate freely.”
— Benedek Tasi, Co-Founder & CEO
💪 Their specialty: Automated manufacturing of soft, compliant, and dexterous robotic bodies by collapsing mechanical complexity into a single continuous production process.
🔑 Business model: Robotic manufacturing platform combining proprietary hardware and software to produce robotic components or complete limbs directly from digital designs, reducing supply chain and assembly complexity.
👩🏫 Market: Global robotics and automation market, including industrial robotics, humanoid robotics, advanced manufacturing, and robotics R&D.
📊 Traction: Completed first pilot project in electronics manufacturing; strong inbound interest from humanoid robotics companies and major US consumer tech (“Big Tech”) players.
