Cyberwave, a start-up that builds the operational bridge between artificial intelligence and physical machines, has announced that it has closed a €7 million funding round led by United Ventures with the participation of The TechShop. The round also includes support from the Vento (Exor) and Pi Campus funds and angel investors. The funding accompanies the launch of the digital twins platform scheduled for the end of October 2025 and will support the expansion of the developer ecosystem, as well as the validation of the first enterprise use cases in the manufacturing, logistics and inspection sectors. Founded by entrepreneurs Simone Di Somma (formerly Askdata, acquired by SAP) and Vittorio Banfi (formerly Botsociety) – pictured – Cyberwave aims to position itself as the European leader in AI-driven automation infrastructure.
Today, implementing artificial intelligence in the physical world is still slow and expensive. Every robot, sensor or actuator has proprietary APIs and specifications, and most projects are managed by system integrators, making automation rigid and costly. This fragmentation makes factories inflexible at a time when Europe is facing labour shortages, demographic decline and pressure to increase productivity and reindustrialisation. According to McKinsey, nearly 30% of manufacturing activities remain manual due to the complexity of integration, while Bain predicts a global shortage of eight million workers in the manufacturing sector by 2030.
Cyberwave solves this problem by abstracting physical hardware into programmable digital twins, which allow developers to simulate, control, and orchestrate machines with just a few lines of code. Unlike competitors focused solely on infrastructure, Cyberwave’s real competitive advantage is a smooth and intuitive developer experience, similar to how GitHub simplified collaboration or Hugging Face made AI models accessible.
Simone Di Somma, co-founder and CEO of Cyberwave, says in a statement: “Our goal is to bring the speed of digital software to the physical world. We want developers to treat machines the way they treat code: flexible, modular and programmable. Just as SAP has become the reference system for digital processes, Cyberwave is building the ‘system of actions’ for the physical world. . The opportunity for flexible automation has not yet been seized. Current systems are rigid, over-engineered and expensive to reprogram, which is why 76% of medium-sized manufacturing companies still struggle to adopt automation on a large scale. Every change involves downtime, integration complexity and inflexible factories. Cyberwave helps overcome these bottlenecks. Just as small teams can create digital products in a matter of days, we want those same teams to be able to reconfigure physical production with the same speed and creativity.
At the heart of the platform is a growing catalogue of digital twins that functions as a two-sided marketplace: hardware manufacturers can integrate their devices once, making them immediately accessible to developers. On the other side, developers gain plug-and-play access to an expanding library of robotic systems, from industrial arms to drones to smart sensors.
The areas of use range from civil to defence applications: automated reworking on assembly lines, optimisation of logistics packaging, drone inspections, construction site monitoring, and computer vision systems that transform cameras into intelligent sensors.
The platform’s ability to rapidly reconfigure physical systems also meets the needs of the defence sector, which requires flexible and scalable production.
Massimiliano Magrini, founder and managing partner of United Ventures, comments: “Simone and Vittorio combine technical excellence, product vision and entrepreneurial experience. With Cyberwave, they are tackling AI and robotics with a developer-first approach, focused on making robots useful and easy to use. We believe that their mission and team have the potential to create a category leader.
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