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2015 fundings, IPOs, acquisitions and failures

2015 fundings, IPOs, acquisitions and failures

From the 2015 archives of The Robot Report : 54 fundings of $1.267 billion, 31 acquisitions totaling over $1.97 billion, and one IPO all adding up to some surprisingly large figures. [All citations below can be found in the 2015 archives of The Robot Report or by searching in the red search box on the right side of the menu bar above.] $1.97+ billion in Acquisitions: Universal Robots was acquired by Teradyne $350 million; C&C Technologies got $280 million from Ocean Engineering; Blue Belt Technologies got $275 million from Smith & Nephew; SurgiQuest got $265M from ConMed; Adept Technology got $200M from OMRON Industrial Automation; SMD got $190M from China South Rail; MTS Medication Technologies got $156M from Omnicell; TELELAP ALF-X got $99.8M from TransEnterix Surgical; and Segway, VisLab, 2D3 Sensing, Coord3, Next Metrology, FastBrick Robotics, Dane Systems, Delta Tau, Draganfly Innovations, gomTec, Intek Products, Intellibot, Jabez Technologies, JR Automation, KMel Robotics, Lacquey BV, Let’s Make Robots, MACH4 Pharma Systems, Marine Robotics, Oxford Technologies, Sarcos, Theiss UAV Solutions and VGo all got acquired for smaller or unknown amounts. $42 million in a single IPO: Corindus Vascular Robotics got $42M for their IPO. $1.267+ billion in equity fundings (seed, crowd, series A,B,C,D, VC, etc.): Large and small — but steadily throughout the year, all types of funding for robotic startups and spin-offs occurred during 2015. Large fundings: Softbank Robotic Group got $236 million in joint venture funding with Alibaba and Foxconn; Auris Surgical Robotics got $149.5 million; SZ DJI Innovations got $75M; 3D Robotics got $64M in two fundings during the year; Yuneec Electric Aviation got $60M; Jibo, in 3 separate fundings, got $52.3M; Aeryon Labs got $45.9M; Orbotix got $45M; Zymergen got $44M; Corindus Vascular Robotics got $42M; Rethink Robotics got $40M in two fundings; Hansen Medical got $35M; […]

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