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Trifo is a full stack AI home robot company founded in 2016, focusing on indoor home environments. Trifo has been developing an end-to-end integrated hardware/software system with sensing, perception, and decision capabilities. The Trifo robot is on its mission to serve as the smart autonomous agent to better help people organize and interact with home environments via perceiving physics, geometry, and semantics of home environments, communicating with human in a natural way, and continuously learning new skills with advanced AI technologies.
Trifo has been granted approximately 50 U.S. and Chinese patents, and has filed for more than 70 additional patents globally in U.S., Europe, and China. Trifo's proprietary algorithms have been published at top robotics conferences such as ICRA and IROS. Ironsides, the stereo visual inertial computing module, is widely used by more than 300 universities, companies, and developers. Trifo's first consumer product, Ironpie, a smart robot vacuum, was announced at CES 2019.
Trifo has around 50 employees in Santa Clara, Calif., Shenzhen, and Beijing, China. The company is backed by leading investors including Walden International, Matrix Partners, and Samsung Ventures.
Trifo has been granted approximately 50 U.S. and Chinese patents, and has filed for more than 70 additional patents globally in U.S., Europe, and China. Trifo's proprietary algorithms have been published at top robotics conferences such as ICRA and IROS. Ironsides, the stereo visual inertial computing module, is widely used by more than 300 universities, companies, and developers. Trifo's first consumer product, Ironpie, a smart robot vacuum, was announced at CES 2019.
Trifo has around 50 employees in Santa Clara, Calif., Shenzhen, and Beijing, China. The company is backed by leading investors including Walden International, Matrix Partners, and Samsung Ventures.
Overview
Location
United States, California, Santa Clara
Employees
11-50
Total raised
$26M
Founded date
2016
Funding Rounds 2
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| Nov 7, 2018 | Funding round | $11M |
Mentions in press and media 17
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| Jan 6, 2020 | Daily funding roundup - January 6th, 2020 | TypingDNA closed $7M; Trifo raised $15M; Quantiphi landed $20M; HomeLane secured $30M TypingDNA: TypingDNA provides proprietary A.I. based typing biometrics technology to truly identify users by the way they type on their keyboards. TypingD... |
| Jan 3, 2020 | Trifo raises $15M, debuts AI-powered smart robot vacuum | The company's goal is to build a family of robots to help people with everyday tasks Trifo is a robotics company with a big vision: to build a group of robots that can help people perform everyday tasks such as managing their healthcare, mo... |
| Jan 3, 2020 | Smart Home Device Company Trifo Raises $15 Million | Trifo, a smart home device company known for making a home security robot vacuum, announced it raised $15 million in Series B Trifo — a smart home device company known for making a home security robot vacuum — announced it has raised $15 mi... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | Trifo raises $15M, announces new robot vacuum | Just over two years ago, PerceptIn announced an $8 million Series A. The funding followed a $2 million seed round, and found the startup essentially coming out of stealth to showcase the sensors it was building for a wide range of form fact... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | Trifo raises $15 million for room-recognizing robot vacuum cleaner Lucy | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Home robots are an unsolved challenge in the field of AI and machine learning. Despite the fact that 52% of people believe machines wil... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | Trifo raises $15 million for its AI-powered brain robot vacuum named Lucy | As the world gets ready for CES 2020, Trifo, a full stack AI home robot startup, today announced Lucy, a smart home robot vacuum outfitted with an AI-powered brain. The AI-brain enables the robot to protect its home with advanced surveillan... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | Top tech startup news for today, Thursday, January 2, 2020 – Google, Microsoft, Bosch, Trifo, BlueConic, Mobike, Antabio | Happy New Year! Welcome to 2010. Below is our first top startup new stories of the year 2020. Germany’s Bosch to offer lower-cost sensors for self-driving cars. German automotive supplier Robert Bosch announced Thursday it has developed a ... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | Trifo Raises $15M in Series B Funding | Trifo, a Santa Clara, California-based maker of smart home products, raised 15m in Series B funding. The round, which brought total funding raised to date to $26, was led by Yidu Cloud, Tsinghua AI Fund and Matrix Partners. The company inte... |
| Jan 2, 2020 | Trifo Puls In $15M Series B | SANTA CLARA, CA, Trifo has announced a Series B funding of $15 million, raising total funding of $26 million to date. >> Click here for more funding data on Trifo >> To export Trifo funding data to PDF and Excel, click here ... |
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FAQ about Trifo
When was Trifo founded?
Trifo was founded in 2016.
How much funding has Trifo raised?
Trifo has raised $26M in total across 2 funding rounds.
What funding rounds has Trifo raised?
Parsers VC lists 2 funding rounds of Trifo, among them a funding round of $11M on Nov 7, 2018.
What has the press written about Trifo?
Parsers VC has collected 17 articles mentioning Trifo, among them “Daily funding roundup - January 6th, 2020” (Jan 6, 2020) and “Trifo raises $15M, debuts AI-powered smart robot vacuum” (Jan 3, 2020).
Is Trifo still active?
Yes, Trifo is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 22, 2021.