Nimble develops next-generation autonomous e-commerce fulfillment centers: end-to-end turnkey warehouses that operate at a fraction of the cost and complexity of current goods-to-person systems. Its core product is an intelligent, general-purpose warehouse robot capable of performing storage and retrieval, picking, packing, and sorting, paired with the Nimble Cloud Logistics Platform that provides a unified WMS, OMS, TMS, IMS, and RMS. The solution replaces dozens of individual pieces of equipment and software, simplifying installation, operations, maintenance, and scalability and claims to eliminate as much as 70% of the cost. Nimble plans to use new capital to scale robot manufacturing and system deployments and to invest further in R&D toward its mission of inventing autonomous logistics. The company highlights a commercial alliance with FedEx to scale FedEx Fulfillment using Nimble’s technology and fully autonomous 3PL model. Nimble’s board includes AI and robotics figures Fei-Fei Li, Marc Raibert, and Sebastian Thrun. Nimble develops AI-powered robotic fulfillment systems that autonomously pick, pack and ship e-commerce orders. Its technology is designed to reduce warehouse footprint by up to 75% and enable 96%+ U.S. population coverage in 1–2 day delivery. The company says its network can deliver click-to-collect savings of up to 40% versus legacy 3PL providers and that its fleet handles millions of products across categories such as apparel, electronics, health and beauty, general merchandise and CPG. Nimble serves brands including Best Buy, Victoria’s Secret, PUMA, iHerb and Adore Me. To scale, Nimble is building a nationwide network of next-generation autonomous 3PL fulfillment centers and has assembled logistics executives from Amazon and engineers from NASA, SpaceX, Tesla, Boston Dynamics, GoogleX and top universities. Financially, Nimble has raised new capital to accelerate that expansion and further commercial deployment of its robotic 3PL service. Nimble Robotics develops warehouse fulfillment robots that use deep imitation learning to map and improve through imitation. Its systems are deployed in production and the company says its robots have been picking reliably at scale for over a year for some of the world’s largest retailers. The robots operate autonomously roughly 90–95% of the time, with remote human operators assisting the remaining 5–10%. Nimble reports tens of thousands of real orders picked every day for each of its customers. The company has seen accelerated demand amid ecommerce growth during the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid deployment of its systems. Following the raise, Nimble plans to roughly double its headcount this year.

Total raised

$221M

Funding rounds

3

Latest round

Series C

Latest activity

Oct 2024