Enact Intelligence
Zurich startup giving robots a sense of force and touch, from its own actuators up to a foundation model
Official website: enact-intelligence.com
Startup · No humanoid status · Robot foundation model · Zurich, Switzerland · Founded 2026
- Customers · industrial partners planned, not named
- Funding $30M · USD figure per investors; one report gives EUR 26.68M
- Valuation · not disclosed
- Headcount · nine per redalpine; twelve in another report
Profile
Enact Intelligence builds robots that sense force and touch as well as see. Its lead investor redalpine says the company feeds torque and touch data from the robot's actuators into a foundation model alongside vision and language, and designs its own actuators because standard ones show little of the torque at play. Enact says it is solving dexterity through force and touch, and its approach is meant to work on anything from a single arm to a full humanoid. It has not released a product and plans to work with industrial partners. Founder and CEO Manuel Yves Galliker helped develop the NEO humanoid at 1X Technologies and was on the technical staff at Physical Intelligence. Founded in Zurich in March 2026, it came out of stealth on Oct 22, 2026 with a $30M pre-seed round co-led by redalpine and Notion Capital, with firstminute capital and angels including Mistral's Arthur Mensch and Yann LeCun.
Notes Founded in March 2026, according to redalpine. The company also confirmed the $30M pre-seed on LinkedIn (public page). Former redalpine investor Philip Kneis has joined to lead growth.
Leadership
- Manuel Yves Galliker, Founder & CEO
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Flagship products
- Force-aware robot model and actuators AI model
Foundation model that takes torque and touch data from the robot's own actuators alongside vision and language; Enact designs its own actuators for this. Not yet released
Funding and valuation
Latest round
$30M
Pre-seed · Oct 22, 2026
Led by redalpine, Notion Capital
Also firstminute capital, Arthur Mensch, Yann LeCun, Thomas Wolf, Andrew Lonsberry, David Wallerstein.
$30M per its investors; one report gives €26.68M. redalpine calls it the largest pre-seed round raised by a Swiss startup.
Total raised
$30M
As of Oct 22, 2026
Pre-seed round only
Trademarks
No US filings since 2025 (last checked ).
Source: USPTO Trademark Search, matched on the company’s legal names. Rechecked on the 1st and 15th of each month. A filing shows intent to use a name in the US, not a launched product.
Recent news
- — Emerges from stealth with a $30M pre-seed round co-led by redalpine and Notion Capital, with angels including Arthur Mensch and Yann LeCun Notion Capital
Sources
- Enact Intelligence: giving robots a sense of force and touch (redalpine) (Oct 29, 2026)
- Zurich in Limmat Valley is the Silicon Valley of Robotics (Notion Capital) (Oct 22, 2026)
- Backed by Yann LeCun and Arthur Mensch, Swiss Physical AI startup Enact Intelligence exits stealth with €26.68 million (EU-Startups) (Oct 22, 2026)
- Mistral boss and Yann LeCun back Swiss robotics startup Enact in $30M pre-seed round (Tech.eu) (Oct 22, 2026)
- Enact Intelligence company website (Nov 3, 2026)
Confidence: medium.