LinkedIn · Aug 2026
Company claims a single robot completed 224 orders in one hour and 1,000 orders in a day on a warehouse workflow.
Practical, general-purpose robots for repetitive industrial tasks
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Aug 16, 2026
Overview
Ultra is a robotics company building intelligent warehouse robots for end-to-end task automation, starting with ecommerce order packaging. Public sources indicate the company is active in U.S. warehouse deployments.
Primary product
Industrial warehouse robot(s), including Operator/OP1 for warehouse automation
Founded
2024
Headquarters
New York, New York, United States
Team size
11-50
Industry
Robotics Engineering
Sub-industry
Warehouse robotics / robotic automation
Business model
B2B robotics hardware
B2B software-enabled automation
deployment/services for warehouse operations
Funding
Stage
seed
Total raised
$625K
Latest round
Pre-Seed · Sep 2024
Latest amount
$500K
Sep 2024 · Y Combinator
Aug 2024
People & investors
Leadership
Co-Founder & CEO
Oliver Ortlieb
Co-Founder & CTO
Chetan Parthiban
Co-Founder
Max Friefeld
COO
Work & culture
Publicly visible posts emphasize shipping fast, field deployment, and hiring across engineering, manufacturing, and operations. Culture appears execution-oriented and hardware-focused, but detailed internal culture information was not found.
Compensation
No reliable public compensation ranges were found. Public hiring posts did not disclose pay bands.
Product & market
Pricing
Not publicly disclosed; likely enterprise sale / deployment-based pricing
Differentiators
- —Purpose-built for ecommerce order packaging and warehouse task automation
- —Installs in hours rather than weeks
- —Stationary design avoids batteries and tipping risk
- —Fleet learns from deployed robots and adapts to workflow changes
- —Field-developed with real warehouse constraints
Customers
ecommerce 3PLs
large brands managing their own fulfillment
warehouse operators
Competitors
Locus Robotics
Geek+
Zebra Robotics
GreyOrange
6 River Systems
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
Too early / insufficient public evidence to estimate reliably; likely below $1M annualized from public funding and employee scale
Estimated monthly visits
9K
Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026
Latest news
LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Recruiting post listing open roles across engineering, manufacturing, and operations.
LinkedIn · Apr 2026
Announces Operator, describes warehouse automation use cases, installation speed, stationary design, and fleet learning.
Y Combinator
Official YC launch post says Ultra is building robots to automate American warehouses and names the founding team.
Y Combinator
Job post confirms the company is actively hiring for robotics and manufacturing roles and describes robots already in the field generating revenue and data.
Jobs and careers at Ultra
5 jobs at Ultra
Lifecycle Marketing Manager
On-site
Marketing
New York City; New York City, New York, United States
1mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Director of Ecommerce & Digital Product
On-site
Marketing
New York City
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Senior Quality Manager
On-site
R&D
Frankfort, Kentucky
3mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Creative Videographer/Editor (Freelance > Fulltime)
On-site
Marketing
New York City
7mo ago
On-site
Full-time
Head of Retail
On-site
Retail
New York City
8mo ago
On-site
Full-time