D3VC joins our round! 🚀
We’re excited to announce that D3VC has invested in RISE Robotics!
D3VC (Data Driven Digital Venture Capital), led by Managing Partner Sherwood Neiss, uses AI and data science to uncover startups with breakout potential.
Here’s why Sherwood said they invested:
💬“After analyzing over 150 data points across more than 10,000 crowdfunding offerings through our AI-driven algorithm, RISE Robotics emerged as a standout investment.
While the average crowdfunding raise in 2025 is $675,000, RISE has secured $3.33 million from RegCF investors,nearly 5x the market average,demonstrating exceptional retail investor confidence in their revolutionary Beltdraulicâ„¢ technology. Combined with institutional funding, RISE has raised over $14 million total, but it's the crowdfunding investor sentiment that validates our thesis.
Our machine learning model identified the exact success signals: a Guinness World Record for technical validation, U.S. Air Force credibility, and a breakthrough solution that finally disrupts the age-old hydraulics industry that hasn't meaningfully innovated in decades. RISE's fluid-free actuators deliver 3x faster operation and 50% lower costs while solving the fundamental incompatibility blocking heavy machinery modernization—a technological breakthrough now protected by 20+ patents.
As traditional hydraulic systems deteriorate and fail to meet modern demands for efficiency and automation, OEMs will gravitate toward RISE's superior performance, longevity, and cost-effective solution across a $600 billion industry ripe for disruption." — Sherwood Neiss, Managing Partner, D3VC
Sherwood is also an instrumental player in the history of crowdfunding. He co-authored the ‘Crowdfunding Exemption Framework’, which became the basis of Title III of the U.S. JOBS Act to legalize securities-based crowdfunding!
We’re incredibly grateful to have the data-driven backing of D3VC, and for the trail that Sherwood has blazed so that everyone can invest in RISE alongside our institutional investors like Techstars and the Engine.
🦾 Join us today at wefunder.com/riserobotics
