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    {
      "company": "Pollen Robotics",
      "hq_country": "France",
      "website": "https://pollen-robotics.com/",
      "status": "acquired",
      "what_it_builds": "Owned by Hugging Face, Pollen Robotics develops the open-source Reachy humanoid line, including Reachy 2, for research, education and embodied AI experiments. Reachy 2 combines a humanlike upper body and arms with an optional wheeled base and supports VR teleoperation.",
      "what_it_builds_source": "https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition",
      "founded_year": "2016",
      "founded_source": "https://pollen-robotics.com/about-us/",
      "funding_usd": null,
      "funding_basis": "none disclosed",
      "funding_source": null,
      "funding_note": "No separately quantified equity raise found; nothing summed. April 2023: EUR2.4m seed agreement (https://pollen-robotics.com/about-us/). Excluded: founder says this financing mixes Bpifrance grants, bank loans and business-angel equity, without an equity breakdown (press-reported 2023-07-05: https://www.latribune.fr/innovation/2023-07-05/pollen-robotics-leve-2-4-millions-d-euros-pour-deployer-sa-plateforme-de-services-968335.html). No USD conversion applied. Excluded 2022 USD2m ANA Avatar XPRIZE prize: non-equity (https://pollen-robotics.com/about-us/). April 2025 Hugging Face acquisition is not a primary equity raise (https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition). No Pollen post-money valuation found as of 2026-11-03; parent valuations are not Pollen valuations.",
      "latest_funding_date": null,
      "valuation_usd": null,
      "latest_model": "Reachy 2",
      "latest_model_year": "2024",
      "latest_model_source": "https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition",
      "units_shipped": "100",
      "units_shipped_source": "https://mediaconnect.com/pollen-robotics-presentera-son-robot-humanoide-reachy-2-au-ces-2025-2-2-2/",
      "units_shipped_note": "Lower bound: company reported over 100 robots sold globally and deployed across 20 countries on 2024-12-09. Cumulative Reachy-line count, not Reachy 2 alone; exact total and generation split undisclosed. Excludes newer desktop Reachy Mini and duck-shaped Microduck, which are outside the humanoid scope used here (https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/blog/introducing-microduck/).",
      "as_of": "2026-11-03"
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    "https://pollen-robotics.com/",
    "https://pollen-robotics.com/about-us/",
    "https://www.latribune.fr/innovation/2023-07-05/pollen-robotics-leve-2-4-millions-d-euros-pour-deployer-sa-plateforme-de-services-968335.html",
    "https://huggingface.co/blog/hugging-face-pollen-robotics-acquisition",
    "https://pollen-robotics.com/reachy-2/",
    "https://mediaconnect.com/pollen-robotics-presentera-son-robot-humanoide-reachy-2-au-ces-2025-2-2-2/",
    "https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/blog/introducing-microduck/"
  ]
}