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Blendid

Autonomous robotic smoothie kiosks

  • Robotics
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About

Blendid makes autonomous robotic kiosks that blend smoothies to order. Each kiosk is a self-contained shop: customers order and customize on their phones, and the robot makes the drink from whole frozen fruit and vegetables, up to 30 an hour, with no staff on site.

Vipin Jain, Venki Ayalur and Vijay Dodd, all three veterans of Barnes & Noble's Nook, started the company in 2015 and opened the first commercial kiosk in March 2019. The kiosks now run in colleges, hospitals, gyms and retail, and the company plans to extend the same system to bowls, soups and other foods.

Record

Stage
Series B
Category
Robotics
Location
Sunnyvale, California
Team
11-50
Total raised
$20.7M

Founders

  • Vipin Jain

    Co-founder & CEO

    Previously co-founder and CEO of Retrevo, acquired by Barnes & Noble, and co-founder of the broadband provider Telseon.

  • Venki Ayalur

    Founder, President & CTO

    Previously led engineering for Barnes & Noble's Nook devices, after fourteen years building phones at Motorola, from the StarTAC and Razr to Android.

  • Vijay Dodd

    Co-founder & VP Engineering

    Previously led industrial and product design at AT&T, Palm and Barnes & Noble's Nook.