Overview
Japanese personal mobility company (Tokyo) redefining mobility with autonomous power chairs and scooters. Founded by Satoshi Sugie, WHILL has raised $125M across 6 rounds including investment from Woven Capital (Toyota). The NeoFly model is commercially available.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Products
Deployment
Total fundingsee investors →
Product
Data & sources
Web sources
2
2 sources backing this record.View all →
Current leadership (1)
- Satoshi Sugie CEO & Co-founderreported, not verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for WHILL.
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
WHILL in third-party press
Funding rounds (1)
- Series C2018-09-01
$45M
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 22, 2026
Added to the verified registry
Sources (2)
Common questions
- What is WHILL?
- Japanese personal mobility company (Tokyo) redefining mobility with autonomous power chairs and scooters. Founded by Satoshi Sugie, WHILL has raised $125M across 6 rounds including investment from Woven Capital (Toyota). The NeoFly model is commercially available.
- What does WHILL make?
- WHILL has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: NeoFly (WHILL builds physical robots).
- Who is the CEO of WHILL?
- Satoshi Sugie is the ceo of WHILL, per the DEPLOY registry.
- Where is WHILL headquartered?
- WHILL is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
- Where does WHILL operate robots?
- WHILL 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.
- When was WHILL founded?
- WHILL was founded in 2012.
- Is WHILL safe?
- WHILL 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 · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-07-22
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-07-22
Sources by quality tier
- 2
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for WHILL.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning WHILL from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/whill.md
- RSS feed: /companies/whill/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/23ac2b26-24b4-4c2e-b1a5-3bfc7150a55f
- Revision history: /companies/whill/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Video
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[The WHILL Model A is discontinued, However, we do have the WHILL Model C2, F & Ri]
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