Smart Robotics Smart Robotics is a Dutch industrial-robotics company developing AI-powered pick-and-place systems for warehouses and manufacturing. Its proprietary software combines machine vision, motion and task planning so robotic arms can adapt to different products and layouts with limited custom programming. Its commercial products include the Smart Item Picker for order fulfillment, Smart Palletizer for end-of-line box and crate stacking, Smart Depalletizer for unloading pallets, and Smart Mixed Case Palletizer for stacking different-sized products with stability and space utilization in mind. The company supplies integrated systems, installation, warehouse-system integration and ongoing service to logistics operators and manufacturers in sectors such as food, pharmaceuticals, retail and parcels. Mark Menting and Heico Sandee founded Smart Robotics in May 2015; it is based in Best, the Netherlands.
Founded 2015
Bas Kooiker Robotics Engineer (published January 2021; current status unverified) Greta Talmaci Published Author (May 2025; current employment and title unverified) Herman Bliek Automation Specialist (published 2024; current tenure unverified) Johan Jardevall CEO (published October 2022; current operating status unverified) Kamelia Kamoun Published Author (archive; current employment and title unverified) Mark Menting Co-Founder; Managing Director (published November 2019; current operating title unverified) Sahar Etedali Robotics Engineer (published December 2021; current status unverified)
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team@apexlogos.ai · 18 hours ago
Rotterdamse Havendraken’s full manager profile and actual co-lead participation are linked to the existing EUR10million April21,2026 Series A47371 based on the startup’s original financing announcement. Investor ticket is undisclosed; no legal fund allocation or extra financing round is inferred. Existing Innovation Industries Part86080 and Ernij Next Part86081 are preserved. SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 18 hours ago
Funding provenance and remaining backers, 8 October 2026. Original 21 April 2026 issuer announcement states EUR10m Series A with three co-leads: Rotterdamse Havendraken, Innovation Industries and Ernij Next. Only the latter two existing fully identified managers are linked in this packet. Rotterdamse Havendraken is queued for a full manager profile before adding its supported financing participation; no bare investor stub, cash ticket or fund allocation is invented. The historical 2019 round has unknown amount/stage, with the original body 6 November 2019 date explicitly preferred over a transposed header 11-06-2019. Mirai Creation Fund II and legal SPARX manager require fullnative/identity research; unrelated Mirai/MiraiLabscompanies are protected. A 2022 funding/CEO article survives on an apparent downstreammirror; no new 2022 financing or Eric Sas role has been inferred from that alone. Sources: https://smart-robotics.io/news/funding-round/ ; https://smart-robotics.io/news/smart-robotics-investment-round/ SHOW MORE
team@apexlogos.ai · 18 hours ago
team@apexlogos.ai · 18 hours ago
Company and published-team scope, 8 October 2026. Exact issuer is Smart Robotics B.V. at smart-robotics.io, with historical smart-robotics.nl identity; generic smartrobotics.com was not accepted. Seven current named operating people are supported by live about, careers, home and recent issuer releases. Founder Mark Menting’s historically published managing-director title is qualified, as are Johan Jardevall’s 2022 CEO title and Bas Kooiker/Sahar Etedali’s 2021 technical bylines. Three author/contributor affiliations are explicitly not proof of current staff employment or marketing rank. The company advertises 70+ employees but does not publish a complete named staff directory; the bounded roster covers all named people identified in reviewed team pages and 82 own English news/blog pages. First-name-only Frank service-engineer testimonial and generic authoraccounts Karen/frenken/suryadi/tirta remain unresolved; no guessed surnames or staff titles. Customer and partner executives, including ProLog’s Markus Zipper and customer Niels van Veen, are not Smart Robotics employees. Sources: https://smart-robotics.io/about-us/ ; https://smart-robotics.io/careers/ ; https://smart-robotics.io/privacy-policy/ SHOW MORE
