Verve Motion produces a powered, soft exosuit worn like a backpack that reduces injury risk and boosts productivity by offloading weight and sensing risky movements. The suit captures metrics such as number of lifts, hours in use, weight offloaded, and excessive bending or twisting. Verve emphasizes a people-centric, connected wearable robotics approach positioned as more practical than passive alternatives or bulky rigid exoskeletons. The technology originated in the Harvard Wyss Institute and was developed under DARPA and other federal support before Verve was launched to commercialize the work. The company has sold roughly 1,000 exosuits, runs pilots with retailers including Albertsons and Wegmans, and employs about 40 people. Verve plans to use new capital to expand market share and scale manufacturing. Verve Motion builds a fabric-based soft exosuit, the SafeLift, which adapts to wearer movement and can reduce 30–40% of back strain. The company is targeting industrial and labor-intensive workforces and ran a successful pilot with ADUSA (Ahold Delhaize) in grocery distribution. Founded last year by a team spun out of Conor Walsh’s lab at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the startup aims to scale operations to meet growing demand. Verve’s immediate plans focus on continued product development and operational scaling to get the device to frontline workers. The company has completed a prior seed round and is now in a new institutional growth phase following its recent Series A. Financial details beyond the recent raise were not disclosed in the article.

Total raised

$35M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series B

Latest activity

Dec 2023