
SWARM Biotactics builds controllable bio-robotic insect swarms that gather real-time intelligence where conventional robots cannot operate. The company outfits living insects with modular "backpacks"…

SWARM Biotactics builds controllable bio-robotic insect swarms that gather real-time intelligence where conventional robots cannot operate. The company outfits living insects with modular "backpacks"…
Company: SWARM Biotactics — bio-robotics startup building controllable insect swarms for ISR and tactical use
Founded: 2024
Headquarters: Kassel, Germany (U.S. subsidiary in San Francisco)
Latest funding: €10M seed announced Jun 24, 2025 (total €13M including €3M pre-seed)
Key investors: Vertex Ventures US, Possible Ventures, Capnamic
Tactical ISR, security, disaster response, and inspection in environments unsuitable for traditional robotic platforms.
2024
Biotechnology
€3M
€10M
Round included Vertex Ventures US, Possible Ventures, and Capnamic
“Participation from multiple institutional VCs including Vertex Ventures US, Possible Ventures, and Capnamic indicates institutional venture backing”
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💡 About SWARM Biotactics
At SWARM Biotactics , we’re creating biorobots — living, intelligent systems based on insects. Each insect carries a custom-designed backpack enabling wireless control, sensing, and secure communication.
Biorobot swarms combine the efficiency of biology with AI, sensing, and swarm coordination — unlocking capabilities where conventional machines fail.
We are the only company in the world doing this — and we’re building the foundational systems that make living machines possible.
🚀 Join us at the frontier — and help create the first generation of living machines.
💡 Your Role
You will define and own the core communication and messaging architecture of living biorobot swarms.
This role exists because conventional networking models break when nodes are biological, mobile, energy-limited, and only loosely synchronized. There is no fixed infrastructure, no stable topology, and no separation between sensing, ranging, and communication.
You will operate close to the radio and baseband layers , shaping how physical-layer realities propagate upward into decentralized swarm behavior. Your work will directly determine how living agents coordinate, localize, and act collectively in the real world.
This is a foundational role with no blueprint and no precedent.
🔬 What You’ll Do
🧠 Your Profile
You bring 8+ years of professional experience in wireless communication, networking, or distributed systems (internships , master,...excluded), with strong proximity to radio and baseband systems .
You understand how:
You are comfortable working close to electronics — even if you are not a hardware designer — and you can reason fluently from the physical layer upward.
You are not looking to apply existing standards.
You are looking to invent new communication models .
🌍 How You Work
This role is intentionally selective.
You are:
If you need mature stacks, fixed problem boundaries, or guaranteed outcomes, this role will not work.
🌍 Why SWARM Biotactics
We are well-funded, moving fast, and operating in a domain no one else occupies.
Your work will define the foundational communication layer of living machines — not a feature, not an optimization, but the core system everything else depends on.
⚡ Join the Swarm
This is not a role for safe careers or incremental progress.
It is a role for people who want to define how a new class of machines communicates .
If that’s you, we want to meet you.
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