Mytra
Warehouse storage-and-retrieval robots from the engineer who started Tesla's Optimus team
Startup · Pilot · Robotics leader · Brisbane, California, United States · Founded 2022 · mytra.ai
- Valuation · not disclosed
Profile
Mytra is not a humanoid company: it automates warehouse storage and retrieval with robots that move pallet-sized loads through a dense storage grid. CEO Chris Walti previously started and led Tesla's humanoid (Optimus) team. Customers include a Fortune 100 food company, and in 2025 it signed a deployment 60 times larger than any before and went live in production at a customer site. It raised a $120M Series C in Jan 2026, taking its total above $200M.
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People
- Ahmad Baitalmal FounderCo-founder and Chief Technology Officer
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Flagship products
- Mytra storage and retrieval system Autonomous machines
Robots that lift and move pallet-sized loads of up to 3,000 lb in a dense 3D storage grid, run by Mytra's software
Funding and valuation
Latest round
$120M
Series C · Jan 15, 2026
Led by Avenir Growth
Also Kivu Ventures, Liquid 2, D. E. Shaw, Offline Ventures, Eclipse, Greenoaks, Abstract Ventures, Promus Ventures.
Total raised
about $200M
As of Jan 15, 2026
More than $200M raised in total
Hiring signals
- Open roles
- 41all roles
- Top location
- Brisbane · 90%37 of 41 roles
- Top role area
- Software & infrastructure9 roles · 23% of 39 engineering & ops
Where the roles are · share of 41 open roles (all roles)
- Brisbane, California, US90%37 roles
- Remote (United States)7%3 roles
- Canada3%1 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 · 39 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 2 open roles (finance, HR, legal, sales, facilities and similar) are in the total but not shown here.
Notable postings
- JobSenior role in Software & infrastructure, one of the company's largest hiring areasStaff Robotics Software EngineerBrisbane, California, US
- JobSenior role in Manufacturing engineering, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior NPI Materials Program ManagerBrisbane, California, US
- JobSenior role in Other engineering & ops, one of the company's largest hiring areasProduct ManagerBrisbane, California, US
- JobSenior role in Actuators & mechanical, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Mechanical EngineerBrisbane, California, US
- JobSenior role in Quality & test, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Manager, Systems Test EngineeringBrisbane, California, US
As of . Scope: all roles. Counts are our reading of public job postings, not company statements.
Scope note All open Mytra postings, read from its Rippling job board.
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.
Competitors
Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.
Exotec
Direct competitorBoth sell robot-run storage and order-picking systems to warehouse operators: Exotec makes the Skypod warehouse order-picking robot system, while Mytra sells a robotic grid for storing and retrieving pallet-sized loads.
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 Mytra sells a robotic grid for storing and retrieving pallet-sized loads.
Dexory
Adjacent competitorBoth sell robots into warehouses: Dexory sends robots through warehouses to scan stock and builds a live inventory view, while Mytra sells a robotic grid for storing and retrieving pallet-sized loads.
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Contoro Robotics
Adjacent competitorBoth sell robots into warehouses and distribution centers: Contoro Robotics makes Dock Duck, a robot that unloads floor-loaded trailers, while Mytra sells a robotic grid for storing and retrieving pallet-sized loads.
Amazon Robotics
Adjacent competitorBoth build robots for warehouse work: Amazon Robotics builds the robots that run Amazon's own warehouses, while Mytra sells a robotic grid for storing and retrieving pallet-sized loads.
Recent news
Sources
- Mytra Raises $120M Series C to Scale Operating System for Supply Chain (PR Newswire) (Jan 15, 2026)
- Mytra raises $120 million in Series C funding to advance its AS/RS solution (Modern Materials Handling) (Jan 19, 2026)
- Mytra company and team page (Oct 8, 2026)
- Former Tesla humanoid head launches a robotics startup (TechCrunch) (Jul 23, 2024)
- How Mytra is Transforming the Lifeblood of Our Physical Economy (Eclipse) (Oct 8, 2026)
Confidence: high.