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Revise Robotics
Revise Robotics builds AI-enabled robotic systems that test, refurbish, and resell used electronics, starting with laptops. Its machines slot into e-waste recycling and IT asset disposition facilities, where they inspect devices, wipe drives, photograph units, and list them on online marketplaces - hundreds of laptops a day, across any model, manufacturer, or operating system, without human intervention. Founded in 2024 by Rupesh Jeyaram and Antonio Monreal and backed by Y Combinator (W25), the New York company aims to unlock the residual value trapped in discarded electronics and keep more devices out of landfills.
Reconext
Reconext is a global aftermarket lifecycle services company that takes returned, broken, or retired electronics - phones, laptops, set-top boxes, AI servers, point-of-sale gear - and gives them a second life. Through repair, refurbishment, testing, trade-in, asset recovery, and IT asset disposition, the company keeps devices and components circulating instead of heading to landfill. Headquartered in Grapevine, Texas and operating roughly 22 facilities across the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific, Reconext serves manufacturers, carriers, retailers, insurers, and data centers.