Bleu Robotics raises €5m: Evertrace spotted Benoît Berkoukchi 339 days earlier

Bleu Robotics has raised €5m in pre-seed funding, co-led by Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital. The Paris-based company builds AI software for humanoid robots in factories.

Evertrace spotted Benoît Berkoukchi, co-founder of Bleu Robotics, 339 days before the funding announcement.

Before the round

On 24 November 2025, Evertrace detected a stealth signal for Benoît Berkoukchi. Benoît was in stealth, working on something new. That was 339 days before Bleu Robotics's funding announcement.

Benoît Berkoukchi founded Bleu Robotics with Jean-Baptiste Mouret and Serena Ivaldi, after working in manufacturing at Qarnot and Renault.

What they’re building

Deploying a humanoid robot on a factory line can take months. Bleu Robotics builds a model that lets a robot learn a new task from as few as ten demonstrations by an operator, without large datasets.

The software works with any humanoid platform, and operators teach new tasks at the workstation without writing code.

The round

Contrarian Ventures and OVNI Capital co-led the €5m pre-seed round, with Kvanted, WEPA Ventures, Motier Ventures and angel investor Charlie Songhurst. Bleu Robotics will use the funding to grow its team and scale its software across industries, with the aim of cutting humanoid deployment to one hour or less.

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