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312 Zurich’s Flexion raises €50 million to build the brains behind humanoids

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David Cendon Garcia @ EU-Startups 2 place · 11/21/2025 11:14 EDT

Zurich’s Flexion raises €50 million to build the brains behind humanoids

Zurich-based Flexion, a robotics intelligence startup developing a reinforcement learning platform for humanoid robots, has raised €43 million ($50 million) in Series A funding. The round was led by DST Global Partners with participation from NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture capital arm), redalpine, Prosus Ventures, and Moonfire. This follows a €6.3 million ($7.35 million) Seed round secured ...

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