MONTREAL, Jan. 27, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Vention, the company behind the only AI-powered software and hardware platform for automation and robotics, today announced it has raised $110M USD in financing, with participation from Investissement Québec, Desjardins Capital, certain funds managed by Fidelity Investments Canada ULC, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm) and other financial institutions. The new capital will accelerate Vention's mission to deliver Zero-Shot Automation™, a new paradigm for manufacturing automation that deploys seamlessly, without integration, and operates correctly on the first attempt. A portion of the investment will also fuel Vention's expansion across EMEA, strengthening its presence and operations to solidify its position as the standard for automation in the European market.
This investment comes at a crucial moment; as the U.S. and other major economies focus on boosting manufacturing, companies are seeking dramatically simpler, faster, and more scalable ways to automate their production. Traditional automation—slow, complex, and integration-heavy—cannot keep pace with these demands. Vention's platform, which combines hardware, software, Physical AI and cloud connectivity into a single unified experience, has emerged as a core enabler of the reshoring movement.
said Etienne Lacroix, founder and CEO of Vention.
Vention differentiates itself through advances in generative AI and Physical AI, enabling artificial intelligence to power the design, programming, deployment, and operation of industrial equipment and robotic cells. Building on a multi-year collaboration with leading companies in robotics, Vention has recently launched automated configuration tools, an AI agent for defining machine specifications, a robotic programming copilot, and fully autonomous AI-powered robotic applications. These innovations reduce automation project timelines from months to days.
A major driver of growth has been Enterprise customers adopting Vention as the "standard setter" for automation across all their plants. These organizations—spanning automotive, aerospace, logistics, food & beverage, and consumer goods—are building centralized Advanced Manufacturing Teams (AMTs) and deploying Vention's platform as their global automation backbone.
This shift is creating multi-site, multi-country rollouts that allow enterprises to design once, deploy everywhere, and support continuously—all within the same software and hardware environment.
Lacroix added.
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Vention is leading the future of industrial automation with the world's only AI-powered full-stack platform, unifying hardware, software, and physical AI into one seamless experience. With over 25,000 machines deployed worldwide and a community of more than 4,000 factories, Vention enables businesses to design, program, deploy, and operate turnkey or custom automation solutions in just days. Through Zero-Shot Automation™, Vention brings together intelligent software and modular hardware to deliver automation that works right the first time. Visit to learn more.
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