Hive Robotics, a Munich-based startup building collaborative robotics infrastructure, has raised €2 million in pre-seed funding to grow its engineering team and accelerate its technology roadmap.
The oversubscribed round was led by b2venture with participation from Firedrop, Pareto, Matthias Hilpert, and Klocke Group. Founded earlier this year by Sebastian Mores and Dr. Burak Yüksel, Hive Robotics is developing a secure, certifiable swarm control and communications layer that enables autonomous systems to collaborate in real time.
The company’s C3 (Command, Control, Connect) architecture integrates robot control, perception, localization, and secure communications into a compact modular system. This approach is designed for GNSS/GPS-denied environments and allows drones, ground vehicles, and maritime robots to share data, operate as a team, and adapt to contested conditions.
“While the core technologies have existed for years, true integration into human environments requires rigorous safety, robust security, and globally aligned standards, as well as systems that can seamlessly work together” said Mores.
Hive’s system supports use cases ranging from disaster response and search-and-rescue to defense operations, industrial inspection, and maritime security. In practice, swarms of drones can detect wildfires and share situational maps in real time, or provide aerial overwatch to ground rovers navigating without satellite signals.
By compressing robotics complexity into a single framework, Hive aims to reduce the cost and weight of individual systems while enabling fleet-scale deployment. The company’s modular design also allows for multi-domain teaming and future autonomy extensions.
With the fresh funding, Hive Robotics plans to hire top engineers and scale its platform to address what it sees as a critical gap: a unified, real-time orchestration layer for autonomous systems that meets safety standards and works across domains.
