MEKAWIRE
United States—Series B

Brightpick

Warehouse automation company with Slovak roots, now headquartered in Austin, Texas, whose Autopicker mobile robots and Gridpicker system automate order picking for e-commerce and grocery fulfilment.

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Brightpick is led by chief executive and co-founder Jan Zizka. It began in Bratislava, Slovakia, and was part of Photoneo Brightpick Group, the parent of machine-vision maker Photoneo, which Zebra Technologies agreed to buy from the group in December 2024 and completed in March 2025. By November 2025 Brightpick gave Austin, Texas as its headquarters and said it had more than 250 employees and hundreds of robots deployed in the US and Europe. Its Autopicker is a multi-purpose mobile robot that picks orders and handles buffering, consolidation, dispatch and replenishment; it launched the Giraffe mobile picking system in 2025 and the Gridpicker system in March 2026, and has named Rohlik Group, Dr. Max and The Feed among its customers. In December 2021 Brightpick announced a $21 million Series B led by AI Capital with IPM Group, Earlybird, Venture to Future Fund, Across and Credo Ventures. In January 2023 Photoneo Brightpick Group said it had raised a further $19 million led by Taiwania Capital, with IPM Group, Alpha Intelligence Capital, H&D Asset Management, Venture to Future Fund and Kolowrat Group, completing a $40 million Series B and taking its funding since inception to $53 million, mainly to fund Brightpick installations in the US. In November 2024 Brightpick announced $12 million in equity and debt led by EBRD Venture Capital, with Avast founders Pavel Baudis and Eduard Kucera, ESET founder Miroslav Trnka, Maximilian Kolowrat-Krakowsky and Juraj Duris, and put its total raised at $47 million; the EBRD said it was its first venture debt investment in Slovakia.

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Latest funding
$12M Equity and venture debt
Total funding
$52M
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United States
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