We've closed a €5.8 million Seed round to accelerate our mission: making it faster, more affordable, and more reliable to train and validate autonomous systems. The past two years have been transformative, but we're still in the early stages of solving a critical bottleneck in autonomy development — scalable, trustworthy human feedback on data.
Autonomous vehicles rely on perception systems trained with millions of annotated examples — "this is a car," "this is a pedestrian," and so on. But as fleets scale and datasets explode in size, the challenge isn't collecting data; it's turning raw sensor streams into verified training signals that models can trust. Kognic provides the annotation platform and workflows that enable autonomy teams to integrate high-quality human feedback at scale, ensuring their systems are safe, reliable, and aligned with human expectations.
Time to market is critical in autonomy, but safety cannot be compromised. Training perception systems requires enormous volumes of multi-modal sensor data — camera, LiDAR, radar — making annotation a costly, time-consuming bottleneck. Kognic's platform combines AI-assisted labeling with expert human review to deliver up to 3x faster processing and significantly lower costs, without sacrificing quality. Our workflows are purpose-built for autonomy data, helping customers reduce development timelines while meeting the strictest safety and regulatory standards.
We're proud to partner with Swedish investors Ernström & Co and Stena Sessan in this round. Both bring strong, long-term commitment and share our values. Building from Gothenburg, Sweden, we're at the intersection of deep engineering talent and cutting-edge global technology — an ideal base for a company focused on the future of intelligent machines.
While our focus today is autonomous vehicles, the need for scalable human feedback extends far beyond. As computer vision and embodied AI expand into robotics, logistics, healthcare, and beyond, the demand for high-quality annotated data will only grow. Our long-term vision is to be the infrastructure layer for trustworthy data across all forms of Physical AI. But we know that to earn that position, we must first be the best in the world at autonomy.
We're laser-focused on delivering the most productive annotation platform for autonomy data — purpose-built for multi-modal sensors, proven at scale, and trusted by leading autonomy programs worldwide. With this investment, we're positioned to become the global leader in autonomy data annotation.