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Viam is a robotics company founded 2020, based in United States, developing 1 robot primarily in the Education category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Viam has raised US$60.0M across 2 confirmed rounds and has no deployment evidence on file.
Raised
US$60.0M
across 2 confirmed rounds · latest Mar 2025 · Series C
- Mar 2025· Series C· US$30.0M· led by Union Square Ventures· The Robot Report ↗· 3 outletsCorrect this round
- Feb 2022· Series A· US$30.0M· led by Tiger Global· The Robot Report ↗Correct this round
Confirmed rounds recorded from January 2017. Every amount links to its source.
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No deployment evidence on file
A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against Viam.
Add a deployment →Backed by: Union Square Ventures (on its portfolio ↗)
Robotics software platform to build, deploy, and manage robots
Viam builds a robotics software platform for developers to create, configure, and control robots across hardware and languages, and it also offers the Viam Rover 2.0 as a starter mobile robot for coding and prototyping. The company is based in New York City and was founded in 2020.
Company facts
- HQ
- New York City, United States
- Founded
- 2020 · 6 yrs
- Stage
- Series C · Mar 2025
- Website
- www.viam.com
- View profile ↗
RoboScore
49.20 RoboScore + 2.59 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #27 of 42·Education·best robot 49.51 + depth 0.00 + news 2.59 = total 52.10
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Founded by Eliot Horowitz, co-founder of MongoDB.
Launched a robotics software platform for developers to control robots from anywhere across hardware and languages.
Press coverage
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
+2.59momentumof 15 maxViam Debuts Box-Opening Robot at IROS 2026
In the news
2 events · last 90 days
Why Viam has been in the news, across 4 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
US makers file into registers that compel reporting — device adverse events to the FDA, driverless crashes to NHTSA, workplace deaths to OSHA. A maker with no record here has genuinely not had one filed against it.
Active products by Viam
1 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Viam Rover 2.0 | Education | Payload 9.1 kg·Top speed 0.2 m/s | $99 | 2023 | 49.5 |
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