The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies The Bot Company: 1 model, 1 active incident. 3 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 post-money
Key facts
Founders
Category
Data & sources
News coverage
2
Web sources
1
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Models (1)
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Current leadership (2)
- Paril Jain CTO & Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Luke Holoubek Co-foundersecondary-verified
Safety record
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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
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Recent coverage
The Bot Company in third-party press
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- high
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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)
- Series A2024-05-13
$150M(reported) · $550M post
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 (3)
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-19
Verification posture
Verified
Medium confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-19
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- secondary-established-publication
- Established publication
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- unclassified
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Methodology surface for The Bot Company.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
Video
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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