Company
Serve Robotics
Los Angeles-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company spun off from Uber's Postmates division.
- Founded
- 2017
- HQ
- Los Angeles, CA
- Status
- public
- Models
- 2
- Deployments
- 4
Verified profile
11
Sources on record
1
Tracked changes
Updated 1 month ago
Last verified change
Overview
Los Angeles-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company spun off from Uber's Postmates division. Founded by CEO Ali Kashani and VP MJ Burk Chun, Serve Robotics develops Level 4 autonomous delivery robots deployed for Uber Eats. Listed on Nasdaq: SERV. Raised 47M in total funding including 0M via direct offering. Expanding to DC area and other markets in 2025.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 4 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- 6 incidents on file
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Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
Serve Robot
Level 4 autonomous sidewalk delivery robot for last-mile food delivery via Uber Eats.
Current platform
Serve Gen 3
Serve Gen 3 is the third-generation autonomous sidewalk delivery robot of Serve Robotics, a public company listed on the Nasdaq under the ticker SERV, and is recorded in the sidewalk form factor as the public-company counterpoint to privately held delivery peers, since its SEC-disclosed quarterly filings give it stronger verification depth. Serve originated as Postmates X, the robotics division founded around 2017, and spun out as an independent company on March 2, 2021 with seed funding led by Neo after Uber acquired Postmates for 2.65 billion dollars, with Uber retaining a minority stake that has diluted over time; it later became public through a 2023 SPAC merger rather than a conventional initial public offering, and is led by co-founder and chief executive Ali Kashani. The Gen 3 robot, rolled out in October 2024, is roughly twice as fast and travels twice as far as Gen 2 at about half the manufacturing cost, with five times the onboard compute on NVIDIA Jetson Orin, an Ouster REV7 digital lidar, and a multi-sensor suite of RGB and time-of-flight cameras, ultrasonics, and GPS, and it operates as an operator-supervised Level 4 system, remotely monitored from Serve's local operations centers with human oversight and takeover available rather than being driverless. Its anchor commercial relationship is a May 2023 agreement with Uber to deploy up to two thousand robots on Uber Eats across US markets, since extended with DoorDash and a Shake Shack tie-in. As of its first-quarter 2026 results Serve reported revenue of three million dollars, about 197 million dollars in cash and marketable securities, a net loss of forty-nine million dollars, and 812 daily-active robots within a built fleet of roughly two thousand across forty-four cities in fourteen states; the registry records the verified active markets as US-only, including Los Angeles, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, and Alexandria, Virginia, and treats the two-thousand-robot figure as built capacity rather than simultaneously active.
Relationships
Current leadership (7)
- Ali Kashani Co-founder, CEO & Chairmansecondary-verified
- Touraj Parang President & COOsecondary-verified
- Brian Read Chief Financial OfficerIR-verified
- Dmitry Demeshchuk Co-founder & VP Softwaresecondary-verified
- MJ Burk Chun Co-founder & VP Product and DesignIR-verified
- Anthony Armenta Chief Software and Data OfficerIR-verified
- Euan Abraham Chief Hardware & Manufacturing OfficerIR-verified
Founders (3)
- Ali Kashanicofounderfounded 2021-01-01
- Dmitry Demeshchukcofounderfounded 2021-01-01
- MJ Burk Chuncofounderfounded 2021-01-01
Board (6)
- Ali Kashani chair
- Touraj Parang director
- Sarfraz Maredia director
- David Goldberg director
- Lily Sarafan director
- Olivier Vincent director
Safety record
6 incidents on record (1 serious, 5 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026.
Most recent: Jul 2026
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Incidents affecting Serve Robotics (6)
- Georgia HB 986 takes effect July 1, 2026 - delivery robot sidewalk speed raised to 7 mph2026-07-01 · Regulatory action
- Serve Robotics delivery robot 'Nasir' shattered a CTA bus shelter in Chicago's West Town2026-03-22 · Property damage
- Serve Robotics delivery robot crashes through CTA bus shelter in Chicago2026-03-15 · Property damage
Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Operated deployments (4)
- Serve Gen 3Miami
- Serve Gen 3West Hollywood
- Serve Gen 3Koreatown
- Serve Gen 3Hollywood
Operator customers (1)
- Serve Robotics4 deployments
Recent coverage
Serve Robotics in third-party press
Peer companies
- Amazon4 models
- Avride2 models
- Coco Robotics2 models
- Kiwibot2 models
- Starship Technologies2 models
- Cartken1 model
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- low
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 (4)
- Serve Robotics x Shake Shack x Uber Eats with Shake Shackdeployment
- Serve Robotics financing (Uber & NVIDIA-backed) with NVIDIA, Uber, Wavemaker Partnersinvestment
- Serve Robotics - Uber Eats delivery with Uberdeployment
- Serve Robotics acquires Diligent Robotics with Diligent Roboticstechnologyconcluded
Funding rounds (1)
- Pre-IPO (2023, SPAC)2023-07-01
$30M(reported)
Investors: Uber (strategic) (strategic), NVentures (NVIDIA) (strategic), Wavemaker Partners
Acquisitions (1)
- acquired Diligent Roboticsfull acquisition2026-01-20
Sources (11)
- Serve Robotics — Company website · https://www.serverobotics.com
- Wikipedia — Serve Robotics · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serve_Robotics
- Serve Robotics — Investor relations (public filings) · https://ir.serverobotics.com
- https://investors.serverobotics.com/news-releases/news-release-details/serve-robotics-enters-production-agreement-magna-scale-robot
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/serve-robotics-enters-production-agreement-with-magna-to-scale-robot-manufacturing-302125462.html
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001832483/000183248325000009/serv-20241231xex991earning.htm
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001832483/000183248325000037/serv-20250331xex991earning.htm
- https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001832483/000183248325000107/serv-20250930xex991earning.htm
- https://ir.serverobotics.com/news-releases/news-release-details/serve-robotics-announces-fourth-quarter-and-full-year-2025
- https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/18/uber-nvidia-backed-serve-robotics-hits-public-markets-with-40m-splash/
- https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/serve-robotics-and-wing-to-trial-robot-to-drone-delivery-in-dallas/
Common questions
- What is Serve Robotics?
- Los Angeles-based autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company spun off from Uber's Postmates division. Founded by CEO Ali Kashani and VP MJ Burk Chun, Serve Robotics develops Level 4 autonomous delivery robots deployed for Uber Eats. Listed on Nasdaq: SERV. Raised 47M in total funding including 0M via direct offering. Expanding to DC area and other markets in 2025.
- Where is Serve Robotics based?
- Serve Robotics is based in Los Angeles, CA.
- When was Serve Robotics founded?
- Serve Robotics was founded in 2017.
- What does Serve Robotics make?
- Serve Robotics has 2 robot models on the DEPLOY registry: Serve Robot, Serve Gen 3 (Serve Robotics builds physical robots).
- Where does Serve Robotics operate robots?
- Serve Robotics operates 4 verified deployments, including at Miami, West Hollywood, Koreatown.
- Are there any incidents involving Serve Robotics?
- 6 active incidents involving Serve Robotics are on the DEPLOY registry. Each is a sourced, append-only record; retracted incidents are suppressed from this view.
- Is Serve Robotics safe?
- Serve Robotics has 6 active incidents on record in the DEPLOY registry. 6 incidents on record (1 serious, 5 minor). Most recent: Jul 2026. Retracted incidents are excluded from this count.
Methodology: Verified · 11 sources (7 primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-02
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-02
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 3
- primary-sec-filing
- SEC filing
- 2
- secondary-industry-publication
- Industry publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Serve Robotics.Peer companies
- Amazon4 models
- Avride2 models
- Coco Robotics2 models
- Kiwibot2 models
- Starship Technologies2 models
- Cartken1 model
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Serve Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Georgia delivery robot speed law takes effect July 1: 7 mph on sidewalks
Georgia HB 986 takes effect July 1, 2026. Delivery robot sidewalk speed raised from 4 to 7 mph. Requires continuous audio for visually impaired.
Serve Robotics has deployed 2,000+ delivery robots across the US
Serve Robotics deployed 2,000+ sidewalk delivery robots across US. Largest sidewalk delivery fleet. Operating in LA, Atlanta, DFW, Miami, Chicago, Alexandria.
Serve Robotics Builds 2,000 Autonomous Delivery Robots - Largest Sidewalk Fleet
Serve Robotics deployed 2,000+ delivery robots across US. Largest sidewalk delivery fleet. Operating in LA, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth, Miami, Chicago, Alexandria.
The backlash over delivery robots
BBC: Growing backlash over delivery robots appearing on pavements in US cities. Accessibility and safety concerns mounting.
Shake Shack rolls out sidewalk robot delivery with Serve Robotics and Uber Eats
Shake Shack partnering with Serve Robotics and Uber Eats for first sidewalk robot delivery.
Serve Robotics Achieves Milestone with 2,000th Delivery Robot Deployment
Serve Robotics deployed 2,000th delivery robot. Largest sidewalk delivery fleet in US. Expanded to LA, Atlanta, DFW, Miami, Chicago, Alexandria.
Delivery robots are spreading across LA
Serve Robotics deployed 500 delivery robots in 40 LA neighborhoods. Residents both pity and fear them. Coco has ~300 robots in city.
Serve robots now operating in 40 LA neighborhoods
Serve Robotics expanded to 40 LA neighborhoods from 2 in 2023. Major expansion of sidewalk delivery fleet.
Ambulance hits food delivery robot in Hollywood
An active rescue ambulance transporting a patient struck a food delivery robot in Hollywood, prompting a brief police investigation.
NJ cyclist sues after delivery robot hit-and-run causes broken shoulder
New Jersey cyclist suing after delivery robot hit-and-run left him with broken shoulder and head injury.
Serve Robotics Announces Q1 2026 Results with 3X Sequential Revenue Growth
Serve Robotics completed Diligent Robotics acquisition. Expanding to 44 cities across 14 states. 3X sequential revenue growth. 2,000+ delivery robots deployed.
Growing fleet of delivery bots spreads to 40 LA neighborhoods
Serve Robotics expanded its delivery robot fleet to 40 Los Angeles neighborhoods from two in 2023, deploying over 500 bots across six metro areas. The company debuted a…
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- Data documentation: /data
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Peer companies
- Amazon4 models
- Avride2 models
- Coco Robotics2 models
- Kiwibot2 models
- Starship Technologies2 models
- Cartken1 model
DEPLOY Intelligence Score
35.0/ 100
6-month trend
Analysis
Safety profile within acceptable range for category. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
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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.
Last computed: Jul 3, 2026
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