The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies PaintJet: 2 models, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $10.0M raised. 1 source back the record.
Overview
PaintJet is a Hendersonville, Tennessee-based Construction robotics company developing autonomous painting robots for industrial and commercial building exteriors. Its Bravo robot has covered over 1.5 million square feet of building exteriors, addressing labor shortages in the industrial painting industry. PaintJet operates a hardware-as-a-service model and is expanding to regional hubs across the US Sun Belt and Midwest.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
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Coverage
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Web sources
1
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Models (2)
View all models →Previous platform
Bravo
Bravo is an autonomous painting robot designed for industrial and commercial building exterior painting. It is mounted on a lift or cherry picker and has covered over 1.5 million square feet of building exteriors.
Current platform
Bravo
PaintJet's Bravo is a modular exterior-painting robot attached to a lift/cherry-picker that sprays and coats large building and industrial surfaces; PaintJet reports it outpaces human painters roughly fourteenfold and has coated over 1.5 million square feet.
PaintJet on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where PaintJet's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full PaintJet deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Nick Hegeman Co-Founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- Steve Wasilowski Co-Foundersecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Nick Hegemancofounder
- Steve Wasilowskicofounder
Safety record
No incidents on record for PaintJet.
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)
- PaintJet2 deployments
Recent coverage
PaintJet in third-party press
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
Financial state
- Total funding
- $10.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2024-01-01
$10M(reported) · $60M post
Investors: Outsiders Fund, 53 Stations, Dynamo, Pathbreaker Ventures, MetaProp, VSC Ventures
Timeline
Every recorded move in PaintJet’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2024-01-01Series A raising $10000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJun 24, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Bravo at United States (multiple hotel chains)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Bravo at Germany, Europe
Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
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Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
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- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for PaintJet.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning PaintJet from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
PaintJet Raises 0M in Series A Funding
PaintJet raised 0M in Series A funding led by Outsiders Fund, with participation from 53 Stations, Dynamo, Pathbreaker Ventures, MetaProp, and VSC Ventures.
PaintJet is building big industrial robots for big industrial paint jobs
PaintJet, led by CEO Nick Hegeman, has developed 100% of its robotic technology in-house and covered over 1.5 million square feet of building exteriors in less than three years.
PaintJet puts robots to work in construction where labor is tight
PaintJet, based in Hendersonville, Tennessee, was founded by CEO Nick Hegeman and co-founders Steve Wasilowski and Sonia Chacko, covering 1.5 million square feet of building…
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/paintjet.md
- RSS feed: /companies/paintjet/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/c3c92608-10da-4bd5-a6fe-d40bcfed4197
- Revision history: /companies/paintjet/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
Video
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Atomization experiment on 5/10/2019. - note waves in the paint tray. Intermittent paint flow is due to pumping air as well as paint to the spray gun
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Heat Index
Category contender75/100
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
PaintJet draws attention at the 57th percentile but verifies reality at the 35th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +21.6, 93rd widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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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: Oct 3, 2026