LOMBY, a Tokyo company that builds autonomous delivery robots for public roads, said on 28 September 2026 that it had raised ¥387m (about $2.5m) in a Series A round.
Mercuria Investment led the round through its Mercuria Supply Chain Fund. Suzuki, Canal Ventures, the Tamashin-SNETI investment partnership and Nabtesco Technology Ventures joined, and existing investor DRONE FUND put in more money. The round reached its final close on 31 August 2026.
The new money brought LOMBY's total funding to ¥747m (about $4.75m). The company did not disclose a valuation.
What LOMBY does
LOMBY was founded in April 2022 and is based in Shinagawa, Tokyo, with development offices in Hachioji and Hino. Its chief executive is Tomoharu Uchiyama.
Its main product is the LM-A, a small, low-speed robot that carries goods from shops to customers. Since 2025 the company has run a public-road trial delivering products from a Seven-Eleven store in the Minami-Osawa area of Hachioji, according to Suzuki. LOMBY is also developing the LM-T for moving goods inside factories and the LM-P, a personal mobility vehicle that can carry a person, on the same platform.
Suzuki has worked with LOMBY since 2022 on delivery robots built on its MITRA multipurpose electric platform, and the two companies signed a joint development agreement in 2023. Suzuki designs the electric platform while LOMBY builds the robots and the delivery system. Part of the development has been supported by a deep-tech start-up programme run by NEDO, Japan's state research and development agency.
What the money is for
LOMBY said it would use the money in four areas. It plans to set up mass production of the LM-A, strengthening parts procurement and building a supply chain that assumes volume manufacturing.
It also plans to concentrate its robots in a few areas in Japan so that residents can use them routinely for shopping and food deliveries. As part of this, it intends to deepen its work with Seven-Eleven Japan, using stores as hubs for a local robot transport network.
The rest will go on improving autonomous driving using data from its robots, building a remote-monitoring set-up in which one operator can oversee more machines, and hiring engineers, operations staff and business developers.
Uchiyama said that low-speed autonomous robots were an area where Japanese companies could still aim to have the largest fleets in the world, and that the company wanted to spread domestically made robots from Japan.
The funding so far
LOMBY listed Suzuki as a new investor in this round, while Suzuki's own announcement described its stake as an additional investment. Logi-Today, a logistics news site, previously reported that LOMBY raised ¥270m in October 2024 and that it raised an undisclosed amount in June 2022.
Nabtesco Technology Ventures said it planned to work with LOMBY on areas including wireless charging from Nabtesco group company WiBotic. Canal Ventures is part of the BIPROGY group, which it said would bring its experience in transport, logistics and retail.
Company website: lomby.jp