Last week Forbes published the 2025 30 Under 30 Europe list and put Fabrica AI on it in the Technology category. Profile: forbes.com/profile/fabrica-ai.
Fabrica AI is building software to make robot development one hundred times faster, and to support that mission it’s raised $3 million. Its Fabricator design tool has been developed on the back of the company’s own machines: tile grouting robots that were initially deployed in Singapore. The company is now spread across offices in Czechia, Singapore and the U.S.
The recognition is for the three of us – co-founders Jakub Suchánek, Keefe Wayne Teo and me. Five years from “let’s try to make robots cheaper” to a Forbes badge feels weirdly fast and weirdly slow at the same time.
What we actually do
Fabricator is a design tool for new mobile robots. The pitch: skip the year of CAD + integration + iteration and go from spec to a working prototype in days. We bootstrapped the tool on our own tile-grouting robots in Singapore – if the dogfood doesn’t ship, the customer’s robot won’t either.
We sold 7 robots in 2025, which sounds small until you remember each one is a 300 kg autonomous machine that has to survive a construction site.
Today the team is split across Czechia, Singapore and the U.S., which is the part Forbes flagged. Coordinating across three time zones is its own engineering problem and we are not yet good at it.
Thanks to everyone who put us on the list, to the team, and to the investors who backed the boring middle years. Onwards ‒> the robots aren’t going to build themselves.
