Cyberwave
Cyberwave, an Italian digital twin startup, secured €7M in funding.
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Cyberwave
Cyberwave, an Italian digital twin startup, secured €7M in funding.
Italian startup Cyberwave, which is building the operating layer between AI agents and real-world machines, has secured a €7 million funding round led by United Ventures with participation from The TechShop.
The round also includes support from seed funds Vento (Exor) and Pi Campus, and several prominent angel investors. The funding coincides Cyberwave’s October 2025 digital twins platform launch.
The company said it will also support further expansion of its developer ecosystem and validation of early enterprise use cases across manufacturing, logistics and inspections.
Cyberwave was founded by serial entrepreneurs Simone Di Somma (Askdata, acquired by SAP) and Vittorio Banfi (exited Botsociety). The company said it looks to position itself as Europe's infrastructure leader for AI-powered automation.
“Our goal is to bring the speed of digital software to the physical world,” Di Somma said. “We want developers to treat machines the way they treat code. Flexible, composable and programmable. Just as SAP became the system of record for digital processes, Cyberwave is building the ‘system of actions’ for the physical world.”
Deploying AI into the physical world remains slow and costly. Every robot, sensor or actuator comes with bespoke APIs and specs, while system integrators dominate most projects, making automation rigid and expensive.
Cyberwave said this fragmentation keeps factories inflexible just as Europe faces labor shortages, demographic decline and mounting pressure to boost productivity and reindustrialization.
“Simone and Vittorio combine technical excellence, product vision, and company-building experience,” said Massimiliano Magrini, founder and managing partner at United Ventures. “With Cyberwave, they are tackling AI and robotics with a developer-first approach, focused on making robots useful and easy to use. We believe their mission and team give them the potential to build a category leader.”
Cyberwave addresses this fragmentation by abstracting physical hardware into programmable digital twins, allowing developers to simulate, control and orchestrate machines with just a few lines of code. Unlike competitors focused narrowly on infrastructure, Cyberwave said its differentiator is a frictionless developer experience, similar to how GitHub simplified collaboration or Hugging Face unlocked AI models.
The company said that the core of its platform is a growing catalog of digital twins that functions as a two-sided marketplace. Hardware makers can integrate their devices once, making them instantly accessible to developers. On the other side, developers gain plug-and-play access to an expanding library of robotic systems, from industrial arms to drones to sensors.
Cyberwave said use cases span civilian and defense applications, with examples including:
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