Budapest-based robotics startup Allonic raised $7.2 million in pre-seed funding, led by Visionaries Club, marking the largest pre-seed round in Hungary to date, as Vestbee was told. The funds will be allocated towards developing a new method for producing complex, dexterous robotic bodies.
- Founded in 2025 by Benedek Tasi, Dávid Pelyva, and David Holló, Allonic develops robotic manufacturing systems that automate the production of complex, human-like robot bodies.
- The company’s platform, 3D Tissue Braiding, creates robotic structures by first producing a skeletal scaffolding, then weaving soft, load-bearing fibers around it, and integrating actuators and tendons directly into the structure during production.
- This process eliminates traditional multi-part assembly, embeds sensors and wiring into the body, and produces fully operational, compliant robotic mechanisms in a single automated workflow. The system allows complex 3D designs to be realized at scale, distributes mechanical stress uniformly, and enables rapid iteration from digital design to functional hardware.
Details of the deal
- The pre-seed round was led by Visionaries Club, with participation from Day One Capital, Prototype, SDAC Ventures, TinyVC, and angel investors from OpenAI, Hugging Face, ETH Zurich, and Northwestern University.
“The gap between sophisticated, AI-driven software and slow hardware manufacturing is now a limiting factor for the entire industry. Allonic is the first company I’ve seen to address this problem at the infrastructure layer. By rethinking how robotic bodies are built from scratch, they open the door to faster iteration, lower costs, and robots that will finally be able to move beyond narrow industrial use cases," claims Marton Sarkadi Nagy, Partner at Visionaries Club.
- Allonic plans to accelerate development of its 3D Tissue Braiding platform, expand its engineering and operations teams, and support additional pilots and early commercial deployments with industrial partners.
