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54th percentile
YC-backed founder and CEO of Lucid Bots with $47M raised and 600+ robots shipped
Credibility
Operator · 74th percentile
- Current founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, an active robotics company headquartered in Charlotte, NC.
- Y Combinator S19 alum via Lucid Bots.
- Lucid Bots was co-founded with at least one other person, and Persto was co-founded with his wife Ana.
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Founder score
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Current founder and CEO of Lucid Bots, an active robotics company headquartered in Charlotte, NC.
- 99%Probability of being accurate (99%)Y Combinator S19 alum via Lucid Bots.
- 92%Probability of being accurate (92%)Lucid Bots has raised $34M in venture funding per the founder's own site and multiple independent sources.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Past co-founder of Uiflow (YC W21), which was subsequently acquired.
- 90%Probability of being accurate (90%)Lucid Bots was co-founded with at least one other person, and Persto was co-founded with his wife Ana.
- 75%Probability of being accurate (75%)Co-founded Uiflow (YC W21), a no-code platform that was acquired.
- 72%Probability of being accurate (72%)Lucid Bots LinkedIn profile reports $46.9M in total funding across 14 prior funding rounds, which supersedes the $34M figure from the personal site.
- 70%Probability of being accurate (70%)Identified as a Hugging Face author (@aashur / Andrew Ashur).
What you likely need
You're a hardware-first founder with real traction — 600+ robots shipped, $34M raised, and a Forbes 30 Under 30 badge — and the Festival events that will move the needle are the ones that put you in the room with growth-stage hardware and robotics investors, YC alumni who've already navigated the Series B gauntlet, and enterprise operators who can sign multi-year facility contracts. You'll also benefit from curated hiring and thought-leadership moments that convert your installed-base momentum into a compelling institutional narrative.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA YC S19 hardware and robotics founder dinner to swap Series B war stories and surface warm intros to Khosla, Lux Capital, and Eclipse Ventures from alumni who've already closed those rounds
- fundraisingA growth-stage robotics investor roundtable with partners from Khosla, Lux Capital, and Eclipse Ventures where you pressure-test your '600+ robots shipped, fourth-fastest growing manufacturing company in the USA' Series B narrative
- tacticalA closed-door dinner with C-suite operators from large facility-management and commercial real-estate firms (CBRE, JLL, Cushman & Wakefield) to explore multi-year enterprise service contracts that anchor your recurring-revenue story ahead of a Series B
- hiringA YC hardware-founder hiring night focused on recruiting a VP of Sales and Head of Customer Success who've scaled installed-base expansion revenue at companies like Sarcos, Gecko Robotics, or Dusty Robotics
- positioningA Forbes 30 Under 30 founder dinner with other manufacturing and industrial-tech honorees to co-pitch a follow-on media narrative around your 600+ robots milestone and Spain, Poland, and Ireland international expansion
- tacticalA university Innovator-in-Residence roundtable connecting your Davidson College role and Persto mentoring platform to a structured pipeline of robotics and mechatronics engineering candidates for Lucid Bots
- positioningAn industrial-robotics founder happy hour with technical operators and trade journalists from TechCrunch and Forbes to workshop a blog and content series that builds your thought-leadership profile and drives inbound partnership interest
- fundraisingA YC S19 alumni office-hours session with batch-mates who've raised Series B rounds to get candid feedback on your fundraising deck and unlock second-degree introductions to growth-stage hardware funds