In 2017, Raghu Gupta went out to solve the personal problem: he wanted easily access to a home -cooked food in which he was eaten without spending time on cooking or spending money on a takeout or private chef services. He turned to robotics, which led to the beginning of the beginning Applied.
Posh, a former Tikkarch start -up buttfield company, builds a counter -top robot that makes food using computer vision. Consumers scroll through the list of recipes, select what they want, add the appropriate amount of the required ingredients, and the machine makes food from there.
This process is designed to customize and forgive, Gupta told the Tech Crunch, so the machine allows people to replace, and the cover still works if the user does not measure their components at all.
“This is like a machine to eat,” said Gupta. “So when you want to drink a cup of coffee, you choose a mixture of coffee on your coffee machine. You put beans, sugar and milk in different containers. You drink alcohol, and get out of coffee. Fold does something like that, but to eat.”
Coffee machine is a good, but not perfect, compared to the cover, because the garment requires a bit more labor than the coffee maker.
Although the cover works to a great extent by cooking these foods, consumers still play an active role in buying and producing everything that goes into the device. Particularly cut, can take plenty of time for the kitchen time.
Gupta agreed that some people are not just going to a solution for which they still need to cook something. He said that Posha has so far achieved the most success with users who want to cook two to six times a week and want to lighten some of these evening.
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Gupta said, “These people are already spending an hour in the kitchen every day, deciding what to eat, buying ingredients, cooking, (and) then cleaning.” “We help them shave at least 70 % of the time, so now they spend only 10 to 20 minutes a day.”
Gupta said Posh, which was previously known as Nimble, was actually started as a robotic arm, but the company’s time was at that time Bush’s Excellers Program They indicated to change the course. They learned that consumers did not want anything that was walking in their kitchen or would be difficult to clean. Since then, the company has kept in close contact with its initial users.
“We have been focusing with consumers since the first day and suffering from extreme madness,” said Gupta. “We do not use Zandesk to chat with them. We have WhatsApp conversation with more than 100 users. Most users know me personally. I just moved to the United States in the middle of the pandemic diseases to stay close to my customers. “This system can’t scale, but clearly works for a hidden now.
Gupta said, so far, Posha has mainly relied on the marketing of the 7.750 directly for consumer counter top device. Posha recently collected a round of a $ 8 million series led by Excel, which was attended by existing investors, including Xid Ventures. Waterbridge Ventures; And the co -founder of the flip cart, Bani BenSel; Among others.
Gupta said that the hidden products will use funding to continue development. In particular, the company wants to add more synthesis options and the ability to suggest guidance ideas for people, and Generative AI converts these ideas to instructions and quickly add them to the device.
The company launched its invasive robot January 2025 And then he sold in his first batch – and he is presenting his second in advance.
“If you look at your microwave, your dishwasher, your refrigerator, at some point, these devices were the counter top device,” Gupta said. “They have become so inevitable in consumer homes over time that the builders have begun to install these devices in your homes. We feel that Pausha will face the same luck soon.”