Devanthro

Mission

Our purpose is to help people age with dignity in the comfort of their home and in caring company. We do this by super-powering caregivers, both professionals and relatives, to care for elderlies 24/7 from a distance with humanoid robotic avatars.

Founding Challenges

Raise funding in risk averse capital markets, and countering the prevalent prejudice that elderly people are not interested in technology.

How the Venture Labs help us

The Venture Lab Robotics & AI serves as the vital nexus for Devanthro within the local ecosystem, fostering strong connections to researchers, corporations, founders, investors, and engineers. The TUM Venture Lab enhances this connective environment by offering a co-working space shared with other pioneering robotics startups. This vibrant community nurtures an interchange of both entrepreneurial insights and robotic engineering expertise, offering invaluable support in building our business.

Advice for founders

Deployment is harder than you think. Interfaces are harder than you think. Reliability is harder than you think. Focus on making these things as simple as possible. Also, hardware will break in unintuitive and unexpected ways - go test in the real world as fast as possible.