Cyberwave, a Milan-based startup growing an working layer that connects AI brokers with real-world machines, has raised €7 million in a funding spherical led by United Ventures, with participation from The TechShop, Vento (Exor), Pi Campus, and several other angel buyers. The funding comes forward of the corporate’s official platform launch in October 2025 and can assist broaden its developer ecosystem and validate early use circumstances throughout manufacturing, logistics, and inspections.
Based in 2025 by serial entrepreneurs Simone Di Somma (Askdata, acquired by SAP) and Vittorio Banfi (Botsociety), Cyberwave goals to make automation extra accessible by abstracting the complexity of bodily {hardware}. The platform converts robots, sensors, and machines into programmable digital twins that may be managed with just some traces of code.
Deploying AI into bodily environments stays a problem for many industries. Every robotic or sensor typically comes with its personal technical specs and APIs, making integration sluggish and expensive. Because of this, system integrators play a dominant position, limiting flexibility and growing prices. In keeping with McKinsey, round 30% of producing duties nonetheless depend on guide labour because of integration difficulties, whereas Bain forecasts an 8 million world scarcity of producing employees by 2030.
Cyberwave’s platform seeks to handle these points by enabling builders to simulate, management, and orchestrate machines extra simply. Its concentrate on usability units it other than rivals, drawing parallels to how GitHub simplified developer collaboration or Hugging Face made AI fashions extra accessible.
Simone Di Somma, co-founder and CEO of Cyberwave, mentioned: “Our purpose is to carry the velocity of digital software program to the bodily world. We wish builders to deal with machines the way in which they deal with code. Versatile, composable, and programmable. Simply as SAP grew to become the system of file for digital processes, Cyberwave is constructing the ‘system of actions’ for the bodily world.”
He added, “Actual automation has to this point eluded manufacturing. Immediately’s methods are inflexible, over-engineered, and expensive to reprogram, which is why 76% of mid-market producers nonetheless wrestle to undertake automation at scale. Every change means downtime, integration complications, and rigid factories. Cyberwave helps overcome these bottlenecks. Simply as small groups can construct digital merchandise in days, we wish small groups to reconfigure bodily manufacturing with the identical velocity and creativity.”
On the centre of Cyberwave’s platform is a rising catalogue of digital twins that operates as a two-sided market. {Hardware} producers can combine their gadgets as soon as, making them accessible to builders by means of the platform. Builders, in flip, achieve entry to a plug-and-play library of robotic methods, from industrial arms to drones and sensors.
The corporate’s early pilot tasks embody collaborations with main European producers within the automotive, development, and logistics sectors. Use circumstances vary from defect rework in meeting traces and logistics optimisation to drone inspections and development web site monitoring. The know-how additionally reveals potential in defence, the place speedy reconfiguration of bodily methods is vital for versatile manufacturing.
Massimiliano Magrini, Founder and Managing Accomplice at United Ventures, mentioned: “Simone and Vittorio mix technical excellence, product imaginative and prescient, and company-building expertise. With Cyberwave, they’re tackling AI and robotics with a developer-first method, targeted on making robots helpful and simple to make use of. We consider their mission and workforce give them the potential to construct a class chief.”
Aurelio Mezzotero, Founder and Managing Accomplice at The TechShop, added: “Cyberwave is embracing the identical philosophy that made Salesforce and Workday leaders of their fields: true transformation comes from simplifying integration. Their customer-centric engineering method will probably be instrumental in changing guide workflows into clever automation, and in constructing proprietary knowledge foundations for sturdy buyer retention and scalable development.”
