AMP Robotics

AI-powered robotics for recycling and waste management.

amprobotics.com

HQ: Boulder, CO, USA

Robotics

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Jul 30, 2026

Overview

AMP Robotics (now AMP) is a Colorado-based climate-tech company that designs, builds, finances, and operates AI-powered waste sorting facilities and robotic sortation systems for recycling and municipal solid waste. Its flagship offering is AMP ONE, a facility-scale, sortation-as-a-service platform that combines computer vision, robotics, and air-jet sorting to improve recovery, purity, uptime, and landfill diversion.

Primary product

AMP ONE facility-scale AI-powered waste sorting platform

Founded

2015

Headquarters

Louisville, Colorado, United States (1875 S Taylor Ave)

Team size

100-150

Work style

Flexible

Industry

Climate Technology Product Manufacturing

Sub-industry

AI-powered waste sortation and recycling automation

Offices

Louisville, Colorado (HQ)

Portsmouth, Virginia

Solon, Ohio

Commerce City, Colorado

Atlanta, Georgia

Cleveland, Ohio

Europe (distributed operations/career locations)

Business model

sortation-as-a-service

facility design/build/operate

AI/robotics platform deployment

equipment and systems integration

Funding

Stage

growth / late-stage venture

Total raised

$320.1M

Latest round

Convertible Note · Jun 2026

Latest amount

$75M

Convertible Note

Jun 2026 · Undisclosed existing investors

$75M

Series D

Dec 2024 · Congruent Ventures

$91M

Additional Series C investment

May 2023 · Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

$8M

Series C-II

May 2023 · Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

$7.8M

Series C

Nov 2022 · Congruent Ventures and Wellington Management

$91M

Series B

Jan 2021 · XN

$55M

Series A

Nov 2019 · Sequoia Capital

$16M

Seed Round

Oct 2017 · Baidu Ventures

$3.2M

People & investors

Leadership

Tim Stuart

Chief Executive Officer

Matanya Horowitz

Founder & Chief Technology Officer

John Kelsey

Chief Commercial Officer

Beth Dec

Chief Administrative Officer

Justin Ross

General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Founders

James Bailey

Co-founder, former CTO

Investors

Baidu Ventures

Blue Earth Capital

California State Teachers' Retirement System

CalSTRS

Closed Loop Partners

Congruent Ventures

Liberty Mutual Investments

Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund

National Science Foundation

Range Ventures

Sequoia Capital

Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners

Tao Capital Partners

Valor Equity Partners

Wellington Management

XN Capital

Work & culture

Mission-driven and sustainability-focused, with careers materials describing employees as ambitious optimists and unconventional thinkers. AMP emphasizes innovation, collaboration, impact, and a top-workplace culture.

Work style

Flexible

Compensation

Public materials mention company equity and pay transparency, but I did not find public salary bands. Built In indicates strong benefits coverage and day-one eligibility for many plans.

Benefits

company equity

pay transparency

medical insurance

dental insurance

vision insurance

mental health benefits

pet insurance

401(k)

disability insurance

life insurance

HSA employer contributions

paid parental leave

family medical leave

flexible time off

paid holidays

Product & market

Pricing

Sortation-as-a-service and operated-facility pricing, with customers paying per ton processed rather than buying and maintaining the full system; public pricing is not disclosed.

Differentiators

—facility-scale AMP ONE deployments
—sortation-as-a-service operating model
—real-time AI material characterization
—self-calibration and self-clearing systems
—>90% uptime claims
—single-stream and municipal solid waste capability
—modular deployment and rapid commissioning
—performance-guaranteed operating model

Technology

AMP ONE

AMP Cortex

AMP Neuron

AMP Clarity

AMP Vortex

AMP Smart Sortation

Vision

Jet

MicroJet

Delta

computer vision

machine learning

deep learning

robotics

air-jet sortation

NIR

sensor telemetry

cloud/data engineering

automated baling

predictive maintenance analytics

Customers

waste companies

municipalities

Waste Connections

Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA)

Sonoco

Caglia Environmental

Evergreen

consumer packaged goods companies

Competitors

Recycleye

Greyparrot

Danu Robotics

Glacier

Ubicept

Ishitva Robotic Systems

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$50M-$100M (third-party estimate)

Estimated monthly visits

7.8K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

hello@ampsortation.com 1-888-402-1686

Signals & risks

Acquisition

Sep 2025

AMP acquired the Portsmouth operations of RDS of Virginia, marking its move further into facility operations and an operating-company model.

Source

Latest news

AMP Named a 2026 Denver Post Top Workplace

The Denver Post · May 2026

Denver Post's Top Workplaces profile lists AMP among Colorado's best small companies and gives a public headcount snapshot of 170 employees, with 71 in Colorado.

AMP Expands Virginia Mixed Waste Processing Capacity Under SPSA Partnership

Business Wire · Apr 2026

AMP said it increased Portsmouth MSW processing capacity to 108,000 tons annually under its long-term SPSA partnership, with the broader system designed to scale much higher.

Google signs carbon removal agreement with AMP Sortation

Google · Mar 2026

Google announced an agreement with AMP to remove 200,000 tons of CO2 by 2030, tied to AMP's organic-waste processing and biochar pathway.

AMP Acquires RDS of Virginia’s Operations in Portsmouth

AMP · Sep 2025

AMP acquired the Portsmouth operations of RDS of Virginia, deepening its operating footprint in South Hampton Roads.

AMP Acquires RDS of Virginia’s Operations in Portsmouth

Business Wire · Sep 2025

AMP acquired the Portsmouth operations of RDS of Virginia, expanding its operating footprint and reinforcing its move into facility operations.

Jobs and careers at AMP Robotics

15 jobs at AMP Robotics

Material Operations Clerk

On-site

Production

Commerce City, Colorado; Commerce City, Colorado, United States

1w ago

On-site

Full-time