Founded in 2022, voraus is a 40-person, bootstrapped company focused entirely on software. We’ve developed a platform to simplify industrial automation, addressing challenges like outdated tech, rising costs, and integration hurdles such as long development times, inflexible solutions, and limited possibilities for automation providers. Our containerized software platform is agnostic, allowing users to develop, test, orchestrate, and monitor diverse components—from robots and sensors to fieldbuses and networks—all within a single environment. Our holistic approach and the open APIs unlock more than 10 million programmers to automate. By merging modern software development (IT) with operational technology (OT), we aim to set a new standard for automation across industries. voraus is the successor of the cobot company Yuanda Robotics founded in 2017 in Hannover (Germany). In 2024, we served over 20 customers and achieved a revenue of nearly 4 millions. Besides software licences for the operting system (voraus.core) and development environment (voraus.pioneer), we offer software integration services as part of the onboarding of our software. Our customers are automation provider in several industries such as intralogistic, warehouse, recycling, food & beverage and construction. Our overall target is to be shipped with every robot and being preinstalled on any automation hardware. Today, already two major automation hardware provider selling our licensed and brandlabled software.