Matic Robots

The company was founded in 2017 by Navneet Dalal and Mehul Nariyawala; its website calls August 15, 2017 its “unofficial” beginning. The company was formerly known as Matician.⁠[1][2]

According to the company, the two met at the facial-recognition company Like.com (acquired by Google in 2010), then founded Flutter, which detected hand gestures on webcams (acquired by Google in 2013), and at Google built person and motion detection for Nest cameras. TechCrunch describes Dalal as a former Google research scientist and Nariyawala as a former lead product manager at Nest.⁠[3][2]

According to the company’s 2023 announcement, it raised $5.6 million in unannounced seed funding in 2019, led by Nest co-founder Matt Rogers, with participation from John Collison, Patrick CollisonPatrick CollisonPatrick Collison is an entrepreneur who grew up in Ireland. In 2010 he cofounded the payments and financial infrastructure company Stripe with his brother John Collison and serves as its chief executive; he is also a cofounder of the biomedical research organization Arc Institute and has been a director of Meta since 2025.Open the full entry, Adam D’Angelo, Jack Dorsey and others.⁠[3]

The company emerged publicly and announced a $24 million round led by Nat Friedman, Daniel Gross, and John and Patrick Collison, bringing its total funding to $29.6 million; the company called the round a seed round, while TechCrunch reported it as a Series A.⁠[3][2]

The Matic robot, opened for preorders at the same time, vacuums and mops, uses five RGB cameras and processes data on the robot itself, with general availability planned for early 2024. TechCrunch reported that mapping and telemetry data stay on the device unless users opt in to sharing, and that the robot was priced at $1,795, discounted to $1,495 during preorders.⁠[3][2]

The company announced $60 million in new funding, saying it had shipped more than 6,000 robots and would use the money to scale manufacturing, develop features such as voice control and stain detection, and begin work on additional products. The announcement did not name the round or its lead investors.⁠[4]

The company announced Matic Cues from Mountain View, California, letting users direct the robot by voice in more than 70 languages or by gesture, for example by pointing at a mess while saying “Hey Matic” followed by a cleaning command; the feature reached existing owners through an over-the-air software update. The release says its product is designed and assembled in California.⁠[5]

In July 2026 the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices to its Covered List, whose devices cannot receive new equipment authorizations. According to the company’s press release of October 6, after Conditional Approval from the U.S. Department of War, the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau exempted the Matic robotic floor cleaner and its charging dock from the list on October 2.⁠[6]

The company’s website states total funding of $115 million and a team of more than 100 people working on robotics, computer vision, hardware, software, design and manufacturing, based onsite in Menlo Park and Mountain View.⁠[1]

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