The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies The Bot Company: 1 model, $300.0M raised, 1 active incident. 4 sources back the record.
Overview
The Bot Company is a San Francisco-based robotics startup founded in 2024 by former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt and former Tesla AI manager Paril Jain, developing non-humanoid household robots designed to automate everyday chores like cleaning, organizing, and laundry. The company has raised approximately $550 million in total funding across three rounds, reaching a $4 billion-plus valuation as of October 2025, despite having no public prototype or shipped units. Its wheeled robot with articulated gripper arms targets families, short-term rental operators, and elder care providers.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- 1 incident on file
Valuation of record
Company-claimedPriced roundSeries A-X post-money
Key facts
Founders
Category
March 2025 follow-on funding (primary Reuters)
Household non-humanoid positioning (primary TechCrunch)
Data & sources
News coverage
3
Web sources
1
4 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →The Bot Company on the deployment map
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Current leadership (2)
- Paril Jain CTO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Luke Holoubek Co-foundersecondary-verified
Founders (2)
- Paril Jaincofounder
previously at The Bot Company, Tesla
- Luke Holoubekcofounder
Safety record
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 →
Incidents affecting The Bot Company (1)
- Bot Company sued for secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, damaging properties2026-04-12 · 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.
Recent coverage
The Bot Company in third-party press
Peers
101 peers across 1 segment. Every The Bot Company competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
humanoid(101)
68 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 574.5255335898561) · leader Figure AI at 1207%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AI2 Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AIST Humanoid Research Groupdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Acuminodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AgiBotdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $300.0M
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- high
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.
Funding rounds (3)
The Bot Company’s 2 disclosed rounds, $300M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series B2025-10-28
- Series A-X2025-01-15
$150M(reported) · $900M post
- Series A2024-05-13
$150M(reported) · $550M post
Timeline
Every recorded move in The Bot Company’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries B funding round
2025-10-28Series B
Funding roundSeries A-X funding round
2025-01-15Series A-X raising $150000000
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2024-05-13Series A raising $150000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 19, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Incident recordedApr 12, 2026
Bot Company sued for secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, damaging properties
Sources (4)
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2024/05/13/kyle-vogt-the-bot-company-startup-funding/
- https://www.therobotreport.com/the-bot-company-led-by-kyle-vogt-brings-in-another-150m/
- https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-non-humanoid-robot-startup-funding-data/
- https://www.reuters.com/technology/former-cruise-ceo-vogts-robotics-startup-valued-2-billion-new-funding-sources-2025-03-21/
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-09-29
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-09-29
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 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 The Bot Company.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 The Bot Company from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
An SF startup is secretly testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims
A lawsuit alleges Bot Company employees rented Airbnbs under false pretenses to test household robots, damaging properties across the Bay Area.
Cruise Founder Kyle Vogt's Robotics Startup Eyes $4 Billion Valuation
The Bot Company is set to raise $250 million in a funding round valuing the startup at more than $4 billion.
Former Cruise CEO Vogt's robotics startup valued at $2 billion in new funding
The Bot Company raises $150M in a round led by Greenoaks, valuing the startup at $2 billion less than a year after launch.
Cruise founder Kyle Vogt is back with a robot startup
Kyle Vogt announces The Bot Company, a household robotics startup, with $150M in seed funding from Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, Spark Capital, and Stripe's Collison brothers.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/the-bot-co.md
- RSS feed: /companies/the-bot-co/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/c73251bd-f430-4dcb-b6b4-0c8cf579b463
- Revision history: /companies/the-bot-co/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
Today we're going behind the scenes at Addverb Technologies Bot Valley factory to explore the Advanced Robotics Lab where they're building actuators, quadruped robots like Trakr, and the Elixis humanoid robot platform. W
Kyle Vogt joins Sarah and Elad on this week’s episode of No Priors. A serial entrepreneur, Kyle co-founded Twitch, transforming live streaming, and later Cruise
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
The Bot Company draws attention at the 68th percentile but verifies reality at the insufficient-data level among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Safety profile within acceptable range for category. Well-capitalized with $300M raised and recent funding activity. Limited public visibility and press coverage relative to peers.
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: Oct 3, 2026