# The Bot Company

> The Bot Company is a San Francisco robotics startup building a helpful home robot for everyday chores. Founded in 2024 by former Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt with Paril Jain (ex-Tesla AI) and Luke Holoubek (ex-Cruise), the team is creating a non-humanoid robot designed to give people their time back from household drudgery.

- **Founded:** 2024
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Kyle Vogt (Co-founder & CEO), Paril Jain (Co-founder (formerly led AI tech team at Tesla)), Luke Holoubek (Co-founder (former Cruise software engineer))
- **Team size:** ~94 employees
- **Products:** Home Robot (unreleased)
- **Notable:** Raised approximately $300M total across two rounds within 12 months of founding, Reached reported $2B+ valuation pre-product, Assembled a team of robotics and AI veterans from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, and Pixar

## Products & services

- **Home Robot (unreleased)** — A non-humanoid consumer robot reportedly equipped with a wheeled base and gripper arms, designed to help with everyday household chores. Product details remain unannounced.

## Achievements

- Raised approximately $300M total across two rounds within 12 months of founding
- Reached reported $2B+ valuation pre-product
- Assembled a team of robotics and AI veterans from Tesla, Cruise, OpenAI, Google, and Pixar

## Latest updates

- **2024-05** — The Bot Company emerges from stealth with $150M led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and the Collison brothers.
- **2025-03** — Reported $150M follow-on round led by Greenoaks at a roughly $2B valuation.
- **2025-10** — Bloomberg reports the company is eyeing a new round at a $4B valuation.

## Links

- Website: https://bot.co
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/botco

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Last updated: 2026-05-18