# Sami Atiya

> Sami Atiya is a Series A investor at ABB (Zürich) backing Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [ABB](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/abb)
- Location: Zürich, Switzerland
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Nov 2021
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sami-atiya-663b9788/

Sami Atiya is a Series A investor at ABB in Zürich focused on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Sami Atiya is based out of Zürich, Zurich, and is the President Robotics & Discrete Automation business and a Member of the Group Executive Committee of ABB. Sami previously worked at Siemens as a CEO Mobility and Logistics Division. Sami Atiya attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 100% |
| Robotics | 1 | 50% |
| Software | 1 | 50% |
| Electronics | 1 | 50% |
| Manufacturing | 1 | 50% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Switzerland | 1 | 50% |
| United States | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sevensense Robotics | Sevensense Robotics develops an autonomy kit for mobile robots driving in mixed indoor-outdoor, fast changing and crowded environments. | $7.7M | Series A | Nov 18, 2021 |  |
| LandingAI | Landing AI empowers customers to harness the business value of AI by providing enablement tools and transformation programs. One of the company’s core products is LandingLens, an end-to-end AI platform specifically designed for industrial customers to build, deploy and scale AI-powered visual inspection solutions. Founded by one of the mostrecognizable names in AI, Dr. Andrew Ng, (founding lead of the Google Brain team and former Chief Scientist at Baidu), and a world class team, Landing AI is uniquely positioned to help companies across the globe successfully move their AI projects from proof-of-concept to full-scale production. Additional information is available at: www.landing.ai. |  |  |  |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ARVO VENTURE CAPITAL](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arvo-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About ABB

VC Fund · Zürich, Switzerland

ABB is engaged in power and automation technologies. The company provides a range of products, systems, solutions, and services. Its power businesses focus on power transmission, distribution, and power-plant automation and serve electric, gas and water utilities, as well as industrial and commercial customers. Its automation businesses serve arange of industries with measurement, control, protection, and process optimization applications. It operates in approximately 100 countries across four regions: Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East and Africa (MEA). During the year ended December 31, 2011, the business consisted of five divisions: Power Products, Power Systems, Discrete Automation and Motion, Low Voltage Products and Process Automation. On January 26, 2011, the company acquired Baldor Electric Company (Baldor). In May 2011, it purchased a controlling interest in United States-based Validus DC Systems.

5 contacts available at ABB.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Louis Hughes | Member of Board of Directors | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louis-r-hughes |
| Sami Atiya | Member of the Group Executive Committee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sami-atiya |
| Adrian Guggisberg | President, ABB Motion Services | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-guggisberg |
| Babu Kuttala | Chief Data & Analytics Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/babu-kuttala-f133 |
| Chao Wu | Principal at ABB Technology Ventures | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chao-wu-95a2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Sami Atiya invest in?

Sami Atiya invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Software startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Switzerland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Sami Atiya last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sami Atiya closed in Nov 2021. Shizune tracks 2 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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