Keecker

Keecker was founded in 2012 by former Google product manager Pierre Lebeau, who built a mobile robot that wandered the home projecting movies and music onto walls and ceilings while monitoring the house. It raised about 8 million dollars and put more than a thousand robots into homes, with owners using them several hours a day. None of that translated into a fundable business, and the company ran out of cash when no new investment arrived. Lebeau announced the shutdown in March 2019 and pushed a final update that stripped the server dependencies so the deployed robots could keep playing media offline. In his closing note he cited the same headwinds that had felled Jibo and Kuri: too early, too expensive, too little capital.

Founded

2012-01

Shut down

2019-03-12

Funding raised

$8M

Years alive

7

Founders

Pierre Lebeau