Tangent Robotics 🇺🇸
Columbia University spinoff combining robot hands, touch sensing and motor learning to improve robot dexterity. Fly Ventures led the round and Toyota Ventures co-led.
About Tangent Robotics
Tangent Robotics develops dexterous robotic hands and a manipulation system for precise tasks such as assembly, part handling, and equipment maintenance. The system combines multifingered hand designs, light-based tactile sensors, human fingertip tracking, and on-robot learning to train policies that use visual and tactile data to control contact and force.
Tangent Robotics is a US-based company founded in 2025, now around 7 people. It has raised $4.5M in disclosed funding. FundFinder classes it as DeepTech & Space.
Founded by Matei Ciocarlie (Co-founder / Chief Science Officer; previously Google, Willow Garage; Columbia University), Ioannis (John) Kymissis (Co-Founder; repeat founder; previously Chromation, Kelvin; Massachusetts Institute of Technology).
Its investors also appear on FundFinder's most-active lists for Pre-seed · B2B (72 funds), Pre-seed · AI (60 funds), Pre-seed · DeepTech (51 funds).
Company facts from Harmonic and public filings; team backgrounds from public profiles. Refreshed weekly.
Pre-seed · $4.5M · Oct 2026
Fly Ventures- Fly Ventures — Berlin-based first-cheque VC backing technical founders across Europe from pre-seed to seed, investing from its €80M Fund III. · cheques £400k – £2.5M