Cyberwave raises €7M to make the physical world programmable

Milan’s Cyberwave, which builds an
operating layer between AI agents and real-world machines, has raised €7
million in a round led by United Ventures with participation from The TechShop,
alongside seed funds Vento (Exor), Pi Campus, and several prominent angel
investors.

Cyberwave’s platform connects AI
systems to physical machines through digital twins, simulation, and
orchestration tools, enabling developers to control robots, machines, and
sensors with minimal friction. Founded by Simone Di Somma and Vittorio Banfi, the
company aims to provide core infrastructure for AI-driven automation in Europe.

Deploying AI in the physical world
remains slow and costly. Robots, sensors, and actuators often use bespoke APIs
and specifications, and many projects depend on system integrators. The result
is rigid, high-cost implementations that limit factory flexibility amid labour
shortages, demographic decline, and pressure to boost productivity and
reindustrialisation in Europe. Research estimates that integration complexity
leaves roughly 30 per cent of manufacturing tasks manual, and the global
manufacturing workforce could face an 8-million shortfall by 2030.

Cyberwave addresses this by transforming
physical hardware into programmable digital twins, so developers can simulate,
control, and orchestrate machines with minimal code. A seamless developer
experience is its key differentiator versus infrastructure-focused peers.

At the core is a growing catalogue of
digital twins that functions as a two-sided marketplace. Hardware makers can integrate
their devices once, making them immediately available to developers. In contrast, developers gain plug-and-play access to an expanding range of robotic systems, from
industrial arms to drones and sensors.

Applications span civilian and defence
contexts, including defect rework on assembly lines, logistics packing
optimisation, drone inspections, construction site monitoring, and
computer-vision upgrades that turn cameras into intelligent sensors. The platform’s
rapid reconfiguration also supports defence needs for flexible, scalable
production.

Simone Di Somma, co-founder and CEO,
said:

Our goal is to bring the speed of digital software to the physical
world. We want developers to treat machines the way they treat code—flexible,
composable, and programmable. Just as SAP became the system of record for
digital processes, Cyberwave is building the ‘system of actions’ for the
physical world.

The company is initially focusing on
Europe’s manufacturing leaders, with planned US expansion to support European
customers’ operations and tap North American reindustrialisation momentum.

The funding coincides with the October
2025 launch of Cyberwave’s digital-twins platform. It will support the expansion of
the developer ecosystem and validation of early enterprise use cases across
manufacturing, logistics, and inspections.