Copenhagen-based AI hardware startup Atech today announced it has raised an €681k ($800k) pre-Seed round to develop its AI-driven platform for designing, prototyping and building physical products through natural-language workflows. The round saw participation from Nordic Makers, Emblem, Lovable, Sequoia Scout Fund (Sequoia), and Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund (A16z). ”I
David Cendon Garcia
Copenhagen-based AI hardware startup Atech today announced it has raised an €681k ($800k) pre-Seed round to develop its AI-driven platform for designing, prototyping and building physical products through natural-language workflows.
The round saw participation from Nordic Makers, Emblem, Lovable, Sequoia Scout Fund (Sequoia), and Andreessen Horowitz Scout Fund (A16z).
”I am seeing the same patterns Lovable had but for hardware. I’m really excited to see Atech’s journey. The team is one of a kind,” said Anton Osika, CEO of Lovable.
Atech’s pre-Seed round sits at the earliest end of a 2026 EU-Startups funding landscape in which larger amounts have gone into physical AI, robotics, industrial automation, AI-enabled engineering infrastructure and software-defined manufacturing.
Rounds for Sereact, Encord and Isembard indicate capital flowing into scale-stage infrastructure and production systems, while earlier-stage companies such as Allonic, Stanhope AI, BeyondMath and Mirai Robotics show investor interest in enabling layers for real-world AI systems, simulation, robotics hardware and autonomous operations. Total funding for comparable and peer rounds, as per EU-Startups coverage, amount to over €265 million.
Within this context, Atech is positioned as a smaller, newly founded entrant focused on lowering the barrier to hardware prototyping through AI-driven workflows, rather than as a later-stage robotics or industrial automation company.
“Hardware has always belonged to people with budgets and timelines. We’re giving it back to people with ideas,” shared Vladimir Baran, co-founder at Atech, with EU-Startups.
Founded by Vladimir Baran (CCO), Tomas Erik Harmer (CEO), and David Stålmarck (CTO) in 2026, Atech is an AI-driven platform that helps users design, prototype, and build physical products, making it easier to turn ideas into real-world hardware. It aims to simplify the traditionally complex process of hardware development by enabling people to create tangible products through AI-powered tools.
The company explains that building a hardware prototype has traditionally required years of specialised expertise or significant investment in engineering talent. That barrier has kept countless ideas on paper and locked hardware innovation behind a small group of specialists.
Atech introduces ‘vibe-engineering’ for hardware. Just as modern AI tools have made software creation accessible to non-developers, Atech lets users describe a hardware concept in natural language and receive a working prototype in minutes, with all underlying technical complexity handled by the platform.
“Software has an entire stack of tools that lets a teenager build an app in a weekend, hardware doesn’t, and we’re still working at the first level of abstraction. Atech is building the missing layers, so creating in the physical world can feel as fast and joyful as writing code,” adds Tomas Harmer, CEO of Atech.
The company believes that while software development has been democratised over the past decade, hardware has remained “stubbornly difficult to access“. Atech looks to close that gap, making physical creation as intuitive and flexible as building a web app.
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