Ventra Systems

AI robotics
for the physical world.

We build autonomous systems that manipulate the physical world — starting with the hardest problem in robotics: handling things that change shape.

HeadquartersYavne, Israel PortfolioFOLD · FOLD Industrial StatusActively fundraising

Thesis

The next frontier of robotics is deformable.

Robots have mastered the rigid world — welding, picking, assembling. What they still cannot do reliably is handle things that bend, drape, crumple and stretch.

Deformable-object manipulation is the gating problem for autonomy in laundries, logistics, apparel, medical textiles and the home. We build the perception, grasping and control stack that solves it — and the products that monetize it.

Products

Two products. One stack. One thesis.

Ventra develops its platform through two complementary products — one solving a validated commercial problem today, one re-imagining a household category for tomorrow.

Consumer appliance

FOLD

A household appliance that takes a pile of clean, dry laundry and returns it folded, sorted and stacked — autonomously, overnight, with no human touch between dryer and drawer.

Patent application in progress

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Row of commercial front-load laundry machines in an industrial facility

Industrial · B2B

FOLD Industrial

An autonomous textile-processing factory for commercial laundries serving hotels, hospitals and hospitality groups. Takes mixed dry laundry and runs the whole chain — separate, identify, orient, fold, stack — without human handling.

In development

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Fold Industrial

The autonomous textile-processing factory.

Commercial laundries serving hotels, hospitals and hospitality groups process thousands of towels, bedsheets, pillowcases and uniforms daily. Even where folding machines are installed, sorting, separating, feeding and handling still require human labor. FOLD Industrial takes mixed, dry laundry and does the whole chain autonomously.

Articulated industrial robotic arms working on an automated assembly line — Robotic manipulation

Workers and machinery processing white textiles in a large industrial facility — Textile processing

Step 01

Separate individual items from the pile.

Step 02

Identify each textile using AI vision.

Step 03

Orient it correctly using robotic grippers.

Step 04

Feed it into high-speed folding mechanisms.

Step 05

Sort and stack the finished items.

The breakthrough isn't folding. It's eliminating manual feeding and handling.

Why industrial first.

The customer already spends money solving this problem. We're not creating demand — we're replacing costly manual operations with automation.

Industrial environments are controlled and far easier to engineer for than millions of different homes.

We can start with towels and pillowcases — simple geometries — without solving every garment on day one.

Industrial customers can support six-figure machines when verified labor savings, throughput and reliability produce attractive payback.

Investment plan.

Illustrative development budget — not a validated engineering estimate.

Stage	Budget	Objective
Proof of concept	$150K	AI textile separation
Working prototype	$500K	Automated handling and folding
Industrial pilot	$1M	Test inside a real laundry
Commercialization	$3M – $5M	Reliability, manufacturing, first customers

"Build the industrial technology, prove it commercially, reduce its size and cost, and eventually launch the household FOLD appliance. The industrial company generates revenue and valuable real-world robotics data while helping finance the consumer dream."

Industrial laundry folding is an established market and robotic feeding is being developed by others. Our defensible invention is a demonstrably faster, cheaper, more reliable way of separating and orienting mixed textiles — not simply another folding machine.

Acquisitions

Open to founders.

Ventra is open to acquiring complementary AI/robotics startups that advance our thesis of physical-world autonomy. We have the capital structure and strategic framework to welcome founders joining our platform.

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Team

Builders. Operators. Engineers.

Founded by Michael Ohayon, with 20+ years of software and systems engineering experience across autonomous systems, platform infrastructure and product leadership.

Fuller founder story and advisor roster to be added.

Fundraising

Actively raising.

Ventra is actively raising to accelerate development and manufacturing partnerships. We are not taking pre-orders. Investors and strategic partners are welcome to reach out.

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