India, Nov. 4 -- Keeping hospital corridors clean or moving goods across factory floors involves repetitive, physically demanding work. For facility management companies, finding people to carry out these tasks is becoming harder.

This workforce gap is the opportunity behind Peppermint Robotics. Founded in 2019 and incubated at SINE, IIT Bombay, the Pune-based startup builds autonomous robots that scrub floors and move materials across commercial and industrial facilities.

Now, it has raised Rs.100 Cr (about $10.5 Mn) in a Pre-Series B round to expand manufacturing, develop new robots, and strengthen its US and European businesses.

Led by pi Ventures and Crane Venture Partners, with participation from Asiana Fund, the round comprised p...