
He delivered rice in Uber cars, rebuilt after a pandemic shutdown, and turned from restaurant storerooms to factory workstations. Across three startups, Aswin Andrison has kept asking the same practical question: where does work still hurt?
LumiBot (YC W22) builds AI copilots for factories. Its current product uses a camera and computer vision to watch operators' hands during manual assembly, catching mistakes in real time before a defective unit moves down the line. Founded by Aswin Andrison and backed by Y Combinator, Monk's Hill Ventures, Alpha JWC and Goodwater Capital, the company grew out of earlier work automating repetitive back-office and procurement workflows for industrial and e-commerce operators.