Enact Intelligence raises $30m: Evertrace spotted Manuel Galliker 353 days earlier

Enact Intelligence has raised $30m in pre-seed funding from Redalpine, Notion Capital and Firstminute Capital. The Zurich-based company builds technology that lets general-purpose robots sense force and touch.

Evertrace spotted Manuel Galliker, founder of Enact Intelligence, 353 days before the funding announcement.

Before the round

On 3 November 2025, Evertrace detected a stealth signal for Manuel Galliker. Manuel was in stealth, working on something new. That was 353 days before Enact Intelligence's funding announcement.

Manuel Galliker previously led the NEO software team at 1X and worked at Physical Intelligence, before founding Enact in March 2026.

What they’re building

Most robots rely mainly on vision to handle objects. Enact builds the underlying technology for robots that also sense force and touch through their own actuators.

This lets robots handle objects more accurately and learn from less data in industrial and real-world settings. The company is rethinking the full stack, from model architectures and data pipelines to actuators and sensors.

The round

Redalpine, Notion Capital and Firstminute Capital invested in the $30m pre-seed round, with angel investors including Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, Thomas Wolf and Andrew Lonsberry. Enact will use the funding to grow its team and speed up hardware development and research.

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