
Robotics · San Francisco, California
Watney
Watney is a robotics company building a workforce to automate manual labor, starting with data centers and collaborating with hyperscalers and neoclouds to perform dexterous tasks. It closed a $21 million seed round with investors including Conviction, A*, and Abstract.
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- Location
- San Francisco
- On-site · 21 roles
- Team size
- 1-10
- Founded 2024
- Total raised
- $101M
- Series A · last round Sep '26
- Open roles
- 21
Open positions · 21
About Watney
Watney is a company building a robot workforce to bridge the gap between physical infrastructure and human labor, with the aim of becoming the supplier of all manual labor. It began with a focus on datacenters and is collaborating with some of the largest hyperscalers and neoclouds to automate critical, dexterous tasks. The company has closed a $21 million seed round, with investors including Conviction, A*, and Abstract. Watney’s leadership team brings diverse backgrounds, ranging from a former GSM for the iPhone and head of supply chain at Zoox to experts in cobots, Zipline, Worldcoin’s founding engineering, and high-performance EV design from ETH Zurich.
Culture & values
The team includes leaders and engineers from diverse, high-profile tech backgrounds (e.g., former GSM for the iPhone, head of supply chain at Zoox, Cobot, Zipline; former founding engineer at Worldcoin; engineer who built the world’s fastest EV racecar at ETH Zurich).
Funding
$101Mtotal raised
- Sep 2026 · Series A$80M
- Seed$21M
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