# UMA: Mechanical or industrial engineering, Paris, France

> UMA: UMA is a robotics and physical AI company based in Paris, founded in 2025. Based in Paris, France. Founded 2025.

Source: https://millionrounds.com/startup/uma-4 (Millionrounds; every figure on the page links to its filing or article)

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# UMA

UMA is a robotics and physical AI company based in Paris, founded in 2025.

Funding reported Last round: Seed

Mechanical or industrial engineering Paris, France

Company summary

- **Founded:** 2025 1 year old
- **Team:** 32 11 to 50 people
- **Funding reported:** 40M as listed, currency not stated
- **Last round:** Seed Dec 2025

How sure we are

- ✓ **Listed** We know it exists and what it does
- 2 **Funding reported** A company dataset reports a raise
- 3 **Observed** A filing or a dated announcement confirms a round

No round for UMA has been confirmed by a filing or an announcement yet, so nothing here counts toward an investor's record. [How we decide](https://millionrounds.com/methodology)

## About UMA

UMA is a robotics and physical AI company based in Paris, founded in 2025.

The company focuses on developing general-purpose mobile and humanoid robots designed to operate in real-world environments, enhancing quality of life. UMA emphasizes human-level dexterity and embodied intelligence, aiming to create robots that can learn through demonstration and work safely in various sectors, including logistics, manufacturing, and healthcare. The company is working on a humanoid robot platform, featuring a design and a learning architecture known as Real-Time Learning. One of its notable projects is a lightweight humanoid robot codenamed Northstar. UMA plans to implement a robot-as-a-service business model, allowing customers to subscribe to fleets of robots instead of purchasing them outright. Target markets include warehouses, logistics operators, factories, and hospitals, with aspirations to expand into residential settings in the future. The company is actively engaging with potential customers to prepare for industrial pilot programs.

## What company datasets say UMA raised

Funding, as reported

Reported in all **40M** in the source's currency

Last round **Seed**

Last round size **40M**

Last round date **Dec 2025**

## Founders and team

From UMA's own website: 11 founders, 7 on the team.

**Alexandre Berriche** Co-founder and CEO of Fleet

**Clement Delangue** Co-founder and CEO at Hugging Face

**Ioannis Martinos** Co-founder and CEO of Signal Group

**Olivier Pomel** Co-founder and CEO at Datadog

**Salar al Khafaji** Founder and CEO of Monumental

**Tony Zhao** Co-founder and CEO of Sunday.ai

**Xavier Niel** Co-founder and CEO of Signal Group

**Youssef El Manssouri** Co-Founder and CEO at Sesterce

**Guillaume Lample** Co-founder and Chief Scientist at Mistral AI

**Pawel Budzianowski** Co-founder and CTO of K-Scale Labs

**Thomas Wolf** Co-Founder and Chief Science at Hugging Face

- **Rémi Cadene** Chief Executive Officer
- **Ted Stinson** CEO of Covariant
- **Pierre Sermanet** Chief Science Officer
- **Robert Knight** Chief Robot Officer
- **Simon Alibert** Chief Technology Officer
- **Arthur Douillard** Staff Research Scientist at DeepMind
- **Matthieu Cord** Professor at Sorbonne, Director of Valeo.ai

Advisers *Ray Cheng*

## On 3 portfolio pages

Investors who name them

- [Greycroft](https://millionrounds.com/fund/greycroft)
- [Unity Growth](https://millionrounds.com/fund/unity-growth)
- [Drysdale Ventures](https://millionrounds.com/fund/drysdale-ventures)

Each firm lists UMA on its own website. That is the firm's claim, a weaker thing than a round we watched, but a named source.

## The company, in detail

What they build

Known for

information technology & services mechanical or industrial engineering b2b robotics engineering

Built with from their website

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- **Sector:** Mechanical or industrial engineering
- **Industry code:** NAICS 333248, 541511
- **Region:** Ile-de-France

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