Exotec
French maker of Skypod warehouse robots; became France's first industrial unicorn with a $335M round in 2022
Scaleup · Shipping · Robotics leader · Croix, Hauts-de-France, France · Founded 2015 · exotec.com
- Funding · details not disclosed
Profile
Exotec makes the Skypod, an autonomous robot system for warehouse order picking, built entirely in Croix in northern France. Its $335M Series D in January 2022, led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management, valued it at $2B and made it France's first industrial unicorn. Its customers named by the company include Uniqlo, Decathlon, Carrefour, Gap and Geodis.
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People
- Romain Moulin FounderCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Renaud Heitz FounderCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer
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Flagship products
- Skypod Autonomous machines
Autonomous mobile robots for warehouse order fulfilment, deployed by retailers such as Uniqlo, Decathlon and Carrefour and built in Croix, France
Funding and valuation
Latest round
$335M
Series D · Jan 17, 2022
Led by Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Also Bpifrance (Large Venture), 83North.
Valuation
$2B
Series D valuation · Jan 17, 2022
Hiring signals
- Open roles
- 82all roles
- Top location
- Lille · 29%24 of 82 roles
- Top role area
- Field service & deployment14 roles · 22% of 62 engineering & ops
Where the roles are · share of 82 open roles (all roles)
- Lille, Hauts-de-France, France29%24 roles
- Atlanta, Georgia, US11%9 roles
- Tokyo, Japan6%5 roles
- Munich, Bavaria, Germany5%4 roles
- Other locations49%40 roles
Locations are where the posting says the job is based, not where the robots are built. A posting that lists several sites is counted once, under the first.
Role mix · 62 engineering & ops roles
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Roles are sorted into a fixed list of areas by job title. Percentages are of engineering & ops roles. The other 20 open roles (finance, HR, legal, sales, facilities and similar) are in the total but not shown here.
Notable postings
- JobSenior role in Field service & deployment, one of the company's largest hiring areasDeployment Project Manager - Warehouse Robotics & AutomationAtlanta, Georgia, US
- JobSenior role in Other engineering & ops, one of the company's largest hiring areasNorth America Maintenance ManagerAtlanta, United States, US
- JobTypical role in Manufacturing engineering, one of the company's largest hiring areasRobotics Maintenance TechnicianVenlo, Limburg, Netherlands
- JobSenior role in Supply chain, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Software Integration Engineer - Warehouse AutomationLille, Hauts-de-France, France
- JobSenior role in Software & infrastructure, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Java Software EngineerLille, Hauts-de-France, France
As of . Scope: all roles. Counts are our reading of public job postings, not company statements.
Scope note All open Exotec postings, read from its Workable job board (apply.workable.com/exotec).
Trademarks
3 names filed in the US since 2025 · last checked .
- SKYTOTE Examiner objectionRobotic machines for transporting loads and handling objects in business activity areas or warehouses.
Our guess: may be new Skypod storage parts
- SKYTRAY Examiner objectionRobotic machines for transporting loads and handling objects in business activity areas or warehouses.
- EXCHANGER Published for oppositionIndustrial robots for use in warehouse logistics; industrial robots for transport; robots for machine tools.
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.
Competitors
Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.
Mytra
Direct competitorBoth sell robot-run storage and order-picking systems to warehouse operators: Mytra sells a robotic grid for storing and retrieving pallet-sized loads, while Exotec makes the Skypod warehouse order-picking robot system.
Addverb
Direct competitorBoth sell warehouse-automation systems: Addverb builds a wheeled industrial humanoid alongside warehouse automation, while Exotec makes the Skypod warehouse order-picking robot system.
Ocado Group
Direct competitorBoth sell robot-run storage and order-picking systems to warehouse operators: Ocado Group licenses its robot-run Ocado Smart Platform fulfilment systems to grocers, while Exotec makes the Skypod warehouse order-picking robot system.
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Dexory
Adjacent competitorBoth sell robots into warehouses: Dexory sends robots through warehouses to scan stock and builds a live inventory view, while Exotec makes the Skypod warehouse order-picking robot system.
Contoro Robotics
Adjacent competitorBoth sell robots into warehouses and distribution centers: Contoro Robotics makes Dock Duck, a robot that unloads floor-loaded trailers, while Exotec makes the Skypod warehouse order-picking robot system.
Amazon Robotics
Adjacent competitorBoth build robots for warehouse work: Amazon Robotics builds the robots that run Amazon's own warehouses, while Exotec makes the Skypod warehouse order-picking robot system.
Recent news
Sources
- Exotec raises $335 million, becoming France's first industrial unicorn (Exotec) (Jan 17, 2022)
- From Spark to Innovation at Exotec (Dell Technologies Capital) (Oct 9, 2026)
Confidence: high.