Peppermint Robotics is a robotics startup based in Pune. Peppermint Robotics has raised ₹100 crore in its pre-Series B funding round. pi Ventures and Crane Venture Partners led the investment. Asiana Fund also participated in the investment round. The capital injection represents an important stepping stone for the deep-tech company on its journey to scale, enhance engineering, and expand commercial presence in domestic and international markets. The new capital will help the company bring safe mobile robot use to industrial and commercial applications at an increasing pace.
In-house technological stack and core vision
Peppermint Robotics sets itself apart by creating all of its proprietary robotics hardware, software, and perception systems from scratch. The self-driving robots used by the company employ cutting-edge computer vision and LiDAR sensors for mapping intricate surroundings and generating optimized cleaning paths, avoiding obstacles in the process.
The company provides specialized, offline robots developed specifically for security-sensitive environments in which data privacy and disconnected operations are most important. The strength and stability of this technology team is reflected in its commercial deployment fleet.
Peppermint Robotics’ mission is to enable intelligent automation to become an integral part of any business, regardless of its industrial or commercial setting, by automating basic, repetitive, and labor-intensive tasks.
The company aspires to improve workplace safety, resource efficiency, and modern Industry 4.0 standards by creating fully integrated proprietary hardware and software systems that include autonomous systems for cleaning the floor, specialized cleanroom systems, and material handling systems.
Peppermint Robotics is dedicated to becoming one of the world’s leading brands in Robotics, empowering organizations around the world to surpass their operational productivity and better integrate automated efficiency with sustainable facility management without sacrifice.
Capital deployment and rapid business growth
The capital will be invested intelligently in 5 key areas of operation to fuel the company’s current expansion. These initiatives encompass in-depth scientific research and engineering projects, capacity-building for manufacturing production earnings to satisfy ever-rising demand, the expansion of North American operations, wider geographic marketplace entry, and recruitment of senior management and technical engineering expertise.
The capital will be used to drive the growth of the company’s existing line of autonomous floor cleaning and material handling robots, as well as the development of its next-generation line of cleanroom robotics.
The current investment round comes on the heels of stellar commercial success from the Pune-based startup. Peppermint Robotics had already raised $34 crore in April 2025 in an April 2025 Series A funding round.
Its operating revenue has surged, having nearly tripled from fiscal year 2024 to fiscal year 2026 and doubled in the previous year, in line with company disclosures, as sales have exploded. Its fast rate of growth is driven by the need for automated cleaning and material-handling solutions in commercial buildings, manufacturing facilities, airports, and megafacilities.
Conclusion
Crane Venture Partners and pi Ventures led the pre-Series B round valued at ₹100 crore, a testament to the growing confidence of institutional investors in India’s deep-tech and robotics sector. Using an advanced in-house technology stack that integrates LiDAR, computer vision, and specialised software, Peppermint Robotics is positioned to meet the growing demand for automation in commercial cleaning and material handling. The company will use the new capital to fuel growth in its production line, global market entry, and product portfolio scale to establish and assert itself as a major global autonomous mobile robotics company.
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