Company
PaintJet
PaintJet is a Hendersonville, Tennessee-based construction robotics company developing autonomous painting robots for industrial and commercial building…
- Founded
- 2019
- HQ
- Hendersonville, TN
- Status
- active
Funding
$10.0M
Models
2
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
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
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Key facts
Robot
Bravo, a modular exterior-painting robot mounted on a lift/cherry-picker for large building and industrial surfaces
Focus
Construction robotics for exterior painting
Scale
Claims up to ~14x human painting productivity
Technology
Also developing robotic ship painting
CEO
Nick Hegeman
Co-founders
Steve Wasilowski, Sonia Chacko
Total funding
0M+ (Series A)
Coverage
1.5M+ sq ft painted
Data & sources
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
Where PaintJet's robots are verified operating. Explore the deployment map by place and type.
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 →
Recent coverage
PaintJet in third-party press
Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- Advanced Construction Robotics2 models
- August Robotics2 models
- Embodied2 models
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
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Funding rounds (1)
- Series A2024-01-01
$10M(reported)
Investors: Outsiders Fund, 53 Stations, Dynamo, Pathbreaker Ventures, MetaProp, VSC Ventures
Sources (1)
Common questions
- What is PaintJet?
- 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.
- What does PaintJet make?
- PaintJet has 2 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: Bravo, Bravo (PaintJet builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).
- Who competes with PaintJet?
- On the DEPLOY registry, peer companies to PaintJet building in the same form factors include DJI, Boston Dynamics, ATI Industrial Automation, Advanced Construction Robotics.
- Where is PaintJet headquartered?
- PaintJet is headquartered in Hendersonville, TN.
- How much funding has PaintJet raised?
- PaintJet has raised approximately $10M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.
- Where does PaintJet operate robots?
- PaintJet is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.
- Is PaintJet a top robotics company?
- On DEPLOY's intelligence score, which blends verified deployments, funding, hiring, media, safety, and IP signals, PaintJet ranks in roughly the top 34% of companies tracked by the registry.
- When was PaintJet founded?
- PaintJet was founded in 2019.
- Is PaintJet safe?
- PaintJet has no incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. This does not constitute a safety guarantee; it reflects the incidents DEPLOY has tracked and verified to date.
Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-04
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-04
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
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Methodology surface for PaintJet.Peer companies
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- Advanced Construction Robotics2 models
- August Robotics2 models
- Embodied2 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
- DJI7 models
- Boston Dynamics5 models
- ATI Industrial Automation2 models
- Advanced Construction Robotics2 models
- August Robotics2 models
- Embodied2 models
Video
The EcoPaintJet Pro is a new solution in the field of application technology which enables fully automated painting with up to 100% paint usage and connecting product customization with automated manufacturing processes
#Job to #Robot: PaintJet: Revolutionizing Construction Painting with Robotics and AI 🎨🤖 #Robots looking for #jobs @jobtorob Discover PaintJet, the innovativ
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
Welcome to another episode of Category Visionaries — the show that explores GTM stories from tech's most innovative B2B founders. In today's episode, we're spea
Reality vs attention
PaintJet draws attention at the 63rd percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Funding runway warrants monitoring: last known round 31 months ago.
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: Jul 14, 2026