Avidbots
About
About Avidbots
Avidbots develops autonomous commercial floor-cleaning robots for warehouses, manufacturing sites, retail buildings and other large facilities. Its current family includes Neo, the warehouse-oriented Neo 2W and the smaller Kas platform, all using Avidbots Autonomy for mapping, route planning, obstacle avoidance and cleaning execution.
The company also provides remote fleet visibility, performance reporting and service support around the machines. Operators prepare the site, handle consumables and respond to exceptions around the automated scrubbing workflow. Product suitability depends on floor area, aisle geometry, traffic and the cleaning process configured for each facility.
Articles
Observed use
- Gold Twitter at Avidbots Neo floor-cleaning robot
Operational - Embedded - Avidbots’ Neo autonomous floor-cleaning robot uses Elmo Twitter servo drives for its motion system.
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Supply
Supply chain relationships
- Elmo Motion Control
Inbound - Compute & Control - Elmo Twitter servo drives power the documented 600 kg Avidbots Neo cleaning robot
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Funding
- 2022-09-27 - Series C - $70M - Avidbots raises $70M Series C for autonomous cleaning robots
Avidbots raised $70M in Series C funding led by Jeneration Capital. - source: avidbots.com
- 2019-03-21 - Series B - $23.6M - Avidbots raises USD 23.6M Series B
Avidbots closed a USD 23.6 million Series B funding round led by True Ventures. - source: avidbots.com
Investors
- BDC Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-03-21 - latest 2022-09-27
- GGV Capital - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-03-21 - latest 2022-09-27
- Kensington Capital Partners - Participant - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-03-21 - latest 2022-09-27
- SOSV - Participant - Unknown - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-03-21 - latest 2022-09-27
- True Ventures - Lead - VC - 2 funding events - repeat backer - first seen 2019-03-21 - latest 2022-09-27
- 500 Startups Canada - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-03-21
- BMO Capital Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-27
- Golden Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-27
- Golden Vision Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-27
- Jeneration Capital - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-27
- Next 47 - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-27
- Next47 - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-03-21
- Nicola Wealth - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-09-27
- Real Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2019-03-21
Team
- Faizan Sheikh - CEO & Co-founder
- Pablo Molina - CTO, VP Product & Co-founder - Technical and product leader for Avidbots cleaning-robot platform evolution.
Timeline
Events
- 2024-04-10 - Product Launch - Avidbots launches Kas autonomous cleaning robot for tighter commercial spaces
Avidbots launched Kas as a smaller fully autonomous floor scrubber for retail, transportation, healthcare and education environments. The company positioned Kas for tight, dynamic spaces where robots must clean around people and objects. Kas expands Avidbots beyond large-format cleaning robots into smaller facility footprints and people-dense indoor spaces.
Source - 2023-04-25 - Product Launch - Avidbots launches Neo 2W for warehouses and manufacturing environments
Avidbots launched Neo 2W as a floor-scrubbing robot designed specifically for warehouses and manufacturing environments. The company said warehouses and factories create difficult robot operating conditions because of debris, dynamic activity and frequent layout changes. Neo 2W was developed with industrial customers to improve cleaning consistency, reduce downtime and automate labour-intensive floor care.
Source - 2022-09-27 - Funding - Avidbots raises $70M Series C for autonomous cleaning robots
Avidbots raised $70M in Series C funding led by Jeneration Capital. Existing investors including True Ventures, Next47, SOSV, GGV Capital, BDC Capital, Golden Ventures and Kensington Capital Partners participated. The company said the funding would support global expansion, new products, autonomy software improvement and sales growth.
Source - 2020-09-01 - Product Launch - Avidbots launches Neo 2 autonomous floor-scrubbing robot
Avidbots launched Neo 2 as its next-generation autonomous robot floor scrubber platform. The company positioned Neo 2 for commercial spaces with hard flooring, using the Avidbots AI Platform, 360-degree visibility and Avidbots Command Center. The launch upgraded Avidbots core cleaning-robot line during a period of heightened demand for repeatable commercial cleaning and sanitization.
Source - 2020-04-27 - Partnership - Avidbots expands DHL warehouse cleaning robot partnership
The agreement built on Neo deployments in DHL-managed facilities. The partnership linked autonomous floor-scrubbing robots to logistics warehouse operations.
Source - 2019-03-21 - Funding - Avidbots raises USD 23.6M Series B
Returning investors included GGV Capital, SOSV, Real Ventures and 500 Startups Canada. New investors included Next47, BDC Capital and Kensington Capital Partners. Avidbots said the round brought total venture capital financing to USD 36 million.
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Context
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Context tags
- Industrial cleaning robotics - Peer Group
- Autonomous cleaning robot builder - Peer Group
- Commercial Cleaning Robots - Peer Group
- Facility service-robot workflow - Workflow
- Autonomous Floor Scrubbing - Workflow
- Cleaning robot OEM - Stack Layer
- Warehouse Cleaning - Customer Environment
- Indoor Navigation - Capability
- Autonomous facility cleaning - Workflow
- Robot Fleet Monitoring - Stack Layer
- Autonomous industrial cleaning - Workflow
- Healthcare Facilities - Customer Environment
- Commercial facilities - Customer Environment