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Blue Ocean Robotics, the World’s First Robot Venture Factory, Secures $12M USD Funding

December 6, 2019 By admin Leave a Comment

The increasingly important role and market for service robots
“Service robots are playing an increasingly important role and becoming a natural and integrated part of our everyday lives, and as an investor I want to support this development,” says Bo Stærmose, chairman at Juliana Drivhuse and Blue Ocean Robotics investor. “A great example of Danish innovation is Blue Ocean Robotics’ UV disinfection robot. It is currently being used at a number of hospitals around the world, where it prevents infections faster and more efficiently than humans can do manually.”

Blue Ocean Robotics is an efficient innovation factory that continues to conquer new robot territory with service robots for the healthcare, hospitality, construction and agriculture industries. Recognizing the strength of Blue Ocean Robotics’ business model and success, a powerhouse team of investors from the world-recognized robotics cluster based in and around Odense on the island of Funen in Denmark has injected DKK 80M (nearly $12M USD) into the company.

“Service robots are playing an increasingly important role and becoming a natural and integrated part of our everyday lives, and as an investor I want to support this development”

The new funding round includes a major investment by the family of one of Odense’s most renowned business people, the late C.C. Nielsen, the founder of Micro Matic, which has been a driving force for the business development in Funen. Also joining the investment round are owners of Funen-based companies Plus Pack and Juliana Drivhuse, Steen Haustrup and Bo Stærmose, providing Blue Ocean Robotics capital to lead the growth journey for the company’s professional service robots.

Business Angel Lars Terney couldn’t miss out on an investment opportunity in the service robot market either. “I have followed the robot fairytale successes in Odense with excitement for some time, and I see Blue Ocean Robotics as an ideal investment opportunity, given their reputable competences and historic track record.”

While the founders of Blue Ocean Robotics, Claus Risager, Chief Executive Officer, John Erland Østergaard, Chief Technology Officer and Rune K. Larsen, Chief Robotics Officer, still maintain the largest shareholder stake in the company, this new investment provides not only important growth capital, but also professional expertise and connections. “We are pleased that we have been able to attract capital from such a broad investor base in this investment round, which contributes to strengthening the commercialization of our robots,” says Jørn Tolstrup Rohde, Chairman of the Board of Directors at Blue Ocean Robotics. “Specifically, service robots represent an extremely strong expansion potential internationally, which makes our company attractive to investors.”

Investment supports ambitious growth for “robot venture factory”
With a doubling of the company value in just one year, Blue Ocean Robotics is now worth 800 million DKK (nearly $120M USD). Unlike most other companies in the Odense robot hub, Blue Ocean Robotics focuses on more than one product, with a range of service robot products for widely varying industries such as healthcare, hospitality, construction and agriculture. The Blue Ocean Robotics “robot venture factory” concept is that new robot concepts are developed in the parent company and then placed into subsidiaries, which in time are sold.

“We are extremely happy that our now larger and dedicated group of investors sees the opportunities in providing working capital for our fierce expansion, staff growth and continued commercial scale-up. The interest in our service robots is accelerating much faster than we had dared to hope,” says Claus Risager, CEO at Blue Ocean Robotics.

As Blue Ocean Robotics receives support from new investors, there is continued cash backing from the previous group of prominent investors, including two previous rounds of DKK 50 million ($7.4M USD) and DKK 100 million ($14.8M USD) in 2016 and 2018, respectively.

New colleagues daily
During the last two months, Blue Ocean Robotics has hired nearly one new employee every day, now employing more than 100 people. “Currently we are witnessing a tremendous commercial growth in Blue Ocean Robotics with great global demand for our professional service robots including UVD Robots, Beam Robots and PTR Robots. To support this global growth, we have scaled up in all parts of the company, from sales, marketing, customer service, finance and production,” says Claus Risager, CEO at Blue Ocean Robotics.

About Blue Ocean Robotics
Blue Ocean Robotics develops, produces and sells professional service robots primarily in healthcare, hospitality, construction and agriculture. The portfolio of robots includes such brands as Beam Robots, a mobile telepresence robot for communication, social inclusion and CO2 reductions; UVD Robots, a mobile robot for disinfection; PTR Robots, a mobile robot for safe patient handling and rehabilitation; as well as others. Blue Ocean Robotics develops the robots from problem, idea and design to development, commercialization, and all the way to exit. Each robot is moved into its own subsidiary-venture company, making Blue Ocean Robotics the world’s first Robot Venture Factory. Among other things, Blue Ocean Robotics has won one of the robot industry’s most prestigious international awards, the IERA Award 2019.
blue-ocean-robotics.com

Filed Under: PR Tagged With: Blue Ocean Robotics, Claus Risager, John Erland Østergaard, Robot Venture Factory, Rune K. Larsen

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