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He Built a Parenting App for the Question No Spreadsheet Could Answer
Gustavo Rodriguez knew how to read a deal. Becoming a father taught him that the harder problem was turning a mountain of child-development research into one useful thing a tired parent could do next.
Kiwibot
Kiwibot builds small four-wheeled sidewalk robots that handle last-mile delivery on university campuses and inside cities. Founded in 2017 by three Colombian engineers and incubated at UC Berkeley's SkyDeck, the company now operates more than 1,200 Level 4 autonomous robots across 30-plus campuses, completing hundreds of thousands of deliveries with partners like Sodexo, Shopify, Chick-fil-A and the City of San Jose. In 2025 the parent entity began doing business as Robot.com, broadening from food delivery into advertising, logistics and inspection.