The verified answer
As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Botrista: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $130.0M raised. 2 sources back the record.
CategoryFood service
Overview
Botrista is a San Francisco-based robotic beverage dispensing company developing automated cold beverage platforms for restaurants. Founded by former Tesla engineer Sean Hsu, Botrista has raised 20M in Series C funding and partnered with Jollibee Foods Corporation.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries C post-money
Key facts
Robot
Technology
Scale
Focus
CEO & Founder
Key product
Partner
Data & sources
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Botrista has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Jollibee Foods Corporation1× joint
Most recent
Botrista on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Feb 2025. Explore where Botrista's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Botrista deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Sean Hsu CEO & Founderreported, not verified
Founders (1)
- Sean Hsucofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for Botrista.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Botrista2 deployments
Recent coverage
Botrista in third-party press
Peers
144 peers across 1 segment. Every Botrista competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- Artly Coffeedirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Bear Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Blendiddirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Cafe Xdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Chef Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
- Dexai Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)strong
Financial state
- Total funding
- $130.0M
- Employees
- 187
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 just announced
Every company Botrista has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1Jollibee Foods Corporation1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- botrista x Jollibee Foods CorporationwithJollibee Foods Corporationdeployment—just announced
Funding rounds (2)
Botrista’s 2 disclosed rounds, $130M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series C2025-01-01
$120M(reported) · $1.2B post
- Series A2021-06-28
$10M(reported) · $60M post
Investors: Pure Stone Capital, La Kaffa International, Sony Innovation Fund, Middleby Corporation
Timeline
Every recorded move in Botrista’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries C funding round
2025-01-01Series C raising $120000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2021-06-28Series A raising $10000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 6, 2026
Botrista DrinkBot
- Record createdJun 6, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedFeb 18, 2025
Botrista DrinkBot at United States
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedSep 25, 2020
Botrista DrinkBot at San Francisco, California, USA
Sources (2)
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Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Botrista.Peer companies
- Bear Robotics3 models
- KEENON Robotics2 models
- Richtech Robotics2 models
- Artly Coffee1 model
- Blendid1 model
- Cafe X1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Botrista from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/botrista.md
- RSS feed: /companies/botrista/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/9131f37e-e1e0-42a2-b96e-1927a5d8160a
- Revision history: /companies/botrista/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Bear Robotics3 models
- KEENON Robotics2 models
- Richtech Robotics2 models
- Artly Coffee1 model
- Blendid1 model
- Cafe X1 model
Video
Learn from Chief Strategy Officer Jason Valentine as he details just how simple it is to make any one of our 2,000+ craft drink recipes in under 20 seconds using the BotristaPro drink machine. #drinkmachine #beveragedis
Here we have a quick guide on how to use and take care of the DrinkBot Pro. Go to https://www.botrista.co/ to learn more. 0:00 Introduction 0:30 Installation
Final Project for ME 495: Embedded Systems at Northwestern University. Using a Franka Emika #7DOF robot arm to brew a cup of coffee! This project uses #ROS2 a
@Botrista, Inc. is transforming restaurants. In just 4 ½ square feet, it replaces 12 machines, serving everything from Boba tea to cocktails. Jason Valentine,
Keep cool with our refreshing beverages! Tag someone you'd challenge to a sip off below 🍹 #thehalalguys #wearedifferent #botrista
Heat Index
Category contender77/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Botrista draws attention at the 8th percentile but verifies reality at the 61st percentile among food_service robots. Hype Gap -52.6, 18th widest among food_service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Sep 4, 2026