Filed under Consumer · 2019
Jibo
2012 - 2019, 6 years old
The self-described first social robot for the home, a swiveling tabletop companion that recognized faces, held conversations, and told stories.
Jibo raised $3.5M on Indiegogo in 2014 and went on to raise around seventy-three million in venture capital, but it did not ship the robot until late 2017, by which point Amazon Echo and Google Home had taken the home assistant market at a fraction of Jibo's $899 price. The company sold its assets to SQN Venture Partners in 2018, and on March 4, 2019 the cloud servers were shut down, with each robot delivering a now-famous farewell speech and final dance before going dark. NTT Disruption later acquired patents and limited assets.
- Founded
- 2012-11
- Shut down
- 2019-03-04
- Funding raised
- $73M
- Years alive
- 6
- Founders
- Cynthia Breazeal