TeknTrash Robotics
TeknTrash provides businesses with consumer behavior data and insights to inform product, placement, and marketing decisions. It collects data via SmartPOD hardware and analyzes it with Stipra, an AI-driven analytics software platform. The company is positioned as an AI+analytics provider combining edge hardware and cloud software (SaaS) to deliver consumer datasets and dashboards. TeknTrash serves enterprise and retail customers that need point-of-sale or in-location consumer intelligence. Its offering targets commercial deployments for market research, retail analytics, and customer analytics use cases.
TeknTrash Robotics
TeknTrash provides businesses with consumer behavior data and insights to inform product, placement, and marketing decisions. It collects data via SmartPOD hardware and analyzes it with Stipra, an AI-driven analytics software platform. The company is positioned as an AI+analytics provider combining edge hardware and cloud software (SaaS) to deliver consumer datasets and dashboards. TeknTrash serves enterprise and retail customers that need point-of-sale or in-location consumer intelligence. Its offering targets commercial deployments for market research, retail analytics, and customer analytics use cases.
TL;DR
Headquarters / Founded: Founded 2018–2019 (sources list Nov 16, 2018 and 2019); headquarters listed as London, UK
Product: Robotic waste-handling hardware + AI analytics SaaS for in-location consumer/retail intelligence
Stage / Funding: Seed-stage; Seed round announced Aug 1, 2022 (closed Sep 30, 2022)
Notable investors: Microsoft (Microsoft Founders Hub), Google (Google Startups), angels
Team size: Reported ~9 employees
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Retail analytics, market research and customer analytics for commercial in-location deployments
Founded
2019
Industry
DeepTech
Tech Stack
Funding Track Record
Seed round announced Aug 1, 2022 and closed Sep 30, 2022; investors listed include Microsoft (Microsoft Founders Hub), Google (Google Startups) and angels; pre-money valuation reported as $15M on round profile and money-raised amount obfuscated in source.
Recorded as non-equity assistance from Microsoft on May 15, 2022.
Investor Signal
“Microsoft, Google, and angel investor participation in seed-stage activity”