It’s a day of reflection and excitement at Lucid Bots as we announce the closing of our Series A round of funding. To our team, customers, and partners: your trust fuels our journey forward. This capital will allow us to elevate our technology to new heights, better support our customers, and hire the next series of game-changers to join our team.
The path that brought us here is filled with trials, learnings, and the relentless pursuit of a vision—to uplift humanity by building the world's most productive and responsible robots.
In honor of this $9M raise, it’s worth reflecting on 9 humbling moments that helped us get to this point. And it's a renewed commitment to continue solving hard problems and tackling the humbling challenges head-on.
1. It took 2,234 days between our first-ever investor meeting and our first $1M investor commitment.
2. During our leanest times, I would go days without eating (up to 5 days) to save money for drone parts.
3. In our first year, we once went door-to-door selling residential cleaning services while it was snowing to try and make ends meet.
4. I secluded myself for three months in a room above a garage, spending over 16 hours a day learning to build and program our earliest cleaning drone with my rescue dog, Oakley, by my side.
5. When we got into Y Combinator, we trekked across the country in an old RAV4 with no air conditioning because we had to haul all of our tools/equipment -- driving through Texas in June with no AC hits differently!
6. We once cleaned a parking deck from 5 pm until 5 am on a 34-degree night just to prove that our drones could do it. I mishandled some cleaning solution, had a corrosive skin burn, and still have scars on my arm to tell the tale. We are now obsessively attentive to PPE.
7. The property manager at our first office doubted the legitimacy of our business (I was 23) and refused to paint the walls and change the carpet before we moved in. We ended up painting the entirety of our office by ourselves just in time for our first employee to move in.
8. To save money, Bryan Queitzsch and I spent many nights and weekends building a soundproof content studio from the ground up in pursuit of supporting our customers with better training content.
9. A team of us recently spent a sleepless night personally moving the entirety of our office/warehouse to a new facility without hiring any outside help. We started moving at 5:30 pm one evening and worked until we were fully set up by 6 am the next morning to ensure we didn't miss a beat.
Today’s $9M investment is a profound affirmation of our mission and vision. We invite you to join us—whether as a team member, a customer, or a partner—in forging a future that uplifts humanity through the world’s most productive and responsible robots.
The future isn't just clear—it's Lucid.
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Christine Hall
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