Alloy is bringing data management to the robotics industry

Alloy, a Sydney-based startup founded by Joe Harris in 2025, is addressing a critical challenge in the robotics industry: managing the massive amounts of data robots generate daily from sensors and cameras, which can reach up to a terabyte per robot per day. Alloy provides specialized data infrastructure that encodes, labels, and organizes this multimodal data, enabling users to search through it using natural language to identify bugs and errors efficiently. The platform also allows users to set automated rules to flag future issues, akin to observability tools in software development, helping robotics companies reduce the time spent manually diagnosing problems. Since its launch, Alloy has partnered with four Australian robotics firms and aims to expand into the U.S. market. The company has raised over AUD 4.5 million (approximately USD 3 million) in pre-seed funding led by Blackbird Ventures. Alloy’s solution stands out because many robotics companies currently rely on retrofitted data tools not designed for robotics or build their own internal systems