Logibot, a Belgian software startup trying to solve one of logistics' thorniest puzzles, announced September 17 it has raised €1.4 million in seed funding. BeamBerlin led the round, with backing from RDY Ventures, PMV, BAN Business Angels network, and finance&invest.brussels, according to an investor LinkedIn post.
The company's pitch is straightforward, if ambitious: become the neutral layer that lets warehouses test, train, and swap humanoid robots from competing vendors without getting locked into a single supplier's ecosystem. Think of it as middleware for the coming wave of warehouse automation, where the robot itself becomes almost a commodity.
It's a bet that arrives at an opportune moment. European warehouses still employ some 2.5 million manual workers, many of them temps who cost up to 40 percent more than permanent staff. The economic pressure to automate is mounting, but logistics operators face a dilemma: committing to one robot maker means betting on technology that's still evolving rapidly.
CEO Louis Verspreeuwen, who spent 12 years in logistics and international trade with stints in China and Hong Kong, studied at UCL and MIT before co-founding the startup in November 2025. His CTO, Salimzhan Gafurov, brings a different pedigree: two PhDs in robotics and AI, leadership of a 110-person robotics team at Russian e-commerce giant Ozon, and a subsequent role as Head of AI at Verne, a robotaxi startup backed by Bugatti and Rimac.
The Zellik-based company, which now employs seven people, has built what it calls a four-module platform. Logibot.Simulate creates digital replicas of customer warehouses, letting operators test different robot types and workflows before committing hardware to the floor. Logibot.Train adapts vision-language models into warehouse-ready systems through a five-stage process. A third module, Logibot.Data, maps tasks and scores automation opportunities by return on investment. In one case study the company cited, the difference between two hardware options was stark: 280 boxes per hour versus 736.
The fourth module, Logibot.Watch, monitors deployed robots in real time and provides teleoperation fallback when the machines hit edge cases they can't handle autonomously.
Logibot sells access to the platform through SaaS subscriptions, proof-of-concept projects, or robot-as-a-service contracts that bundle hardware with the software layer. One robot is already running at a large Nordic logistics and postal operator in Denmark, though the company declined to name the client. Early customers include logistics providers with workforces ranging from 8,000 to 21,000 employees.
The fresh capital will fund deployments at additional client sites and help the startup assemble a second sensor-equipped robot at its facility in Flemish Brabant. Logibot was also accepted into NVIDIA's Inception Program, according to a LinkedIn post from BeamBerlin.
The lead investor, BeamBerlin, is a Berlin-based startup studio supported by BEUMER Group, which manufactures intralogistics systems globally. That backing gives Logibot a foothold in the industry it's trying to reshape, though the relationship could raise questions about just how neutral the platform will remain if client needs diverge from BEUMER's strategic interests.
Warehouse automation software is hardly a greenfield. Covariant sells AI for robotic picking, while SVT Robotics offers orchestration software that coordinates fleets of machines. Logibot's angle is that it doesn't build proprietary robots—it claims to work with any hardware a customer wants to evaluate.
"Our mission is to become the temp agency for robots," Verspreeuwen said, capturing the parallel to the temp labor problem his software aims to displace. Logistics operators "don't know where to start, they don't want to be locked into a contract with a single robot supplier."
Whether that vision scales beyond a handful of early adopters will depend on how quickly humanoid robots mature, and whether warehouse operators really want to manage a rotating cast of machines—or would rather settle on one vendor and move on. For now, Logibot is placing its bet on flexibility over loyalty.
