Participated · Series B · Aug 2025

FORT Robotics provides a Robotics Control Platform that delivers safety, security, and dynamic control for intelligent machines and autonomous systems. The company serves over 500 customers with an estimated 12,000 units deployed and holds 27 patents. FORT’s product roadmap focuses on enhancing existing products with new communication protocols, API integrations, and expanded international compliance. It plans to build next-generation safety capabilities, including critical data analytics and comprehensive safety solutions tailored to physical AI. Target industries include warehousing, agriculture, construction, autonomous vehicles, defense, factory automation, and humanoid robotics. Founded in 2018 and based in Philadelphia, FORT positions itself as an enabler for large-scale deployments of autonomous systems across global worksites. Fort builds software to make industrial robots safer around people while protecting them from cybersecurity vulnerabilities. Its FORT Platform fuses functional safety and cybersecurity principles to enable timely, accurate, and secure communication to, from, and between machines over any network. The platform has been adopted by robotics makers including Agility, Hexagon and Moog. The company is Philadelphia-based. Fort announced a $25 million Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing total funding to $41.5 million including a $13 million raise in March 2021 from investors such as Prime Movers Lab and Mark Cuban. The company says the new funds will be used to further deploy its safety systems and scale to meet demand from the next generation of smart machines. Fort Robotics develops safety software for collaborative robots and other autonomous systems, addressing cybersecurity vulnerabilities, system failures, and potential human error. Its platform targets a wide range of verticals, including warehouse fulfillment, manufacturing, delivery, and transportation. The company says it currently works with 100 companies across these categories. Fort positions its product to enable safer deployment of mobile automation across industries. Company leadership says additional investment will allow rapid scaling to capitalize on growing automation trends. The recent fundraising is intended to support that expansion.