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Pittsburgh water tank inspection robotics team seeks $750,000 pre-seed funding
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A Robotics Row team in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville is raising $750,000 in pre-seed funding for a water tank inspection robot. The prototype is already usable, and two pilot deployments have been completed with a municipal utility. The founder says Pittsburgh has engineers and is only ten minutes from CMU, but few local people are willing to put in money. The team used the articuler CLI to screen about 40 angels with industrial or robotics operations backgrounds, of whom about one-third are in Pittsburgh or Cleveland and the rest on the East and West Coasts. The founder faces a choice: local investors can come see the robot in person, while coastal investors write bigger checks but first ask whether the team will move to the Bay Area.
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- Pittsburgh hardware founder: water tank inspection robot seeks $750,000 pre-seed—local angels or Bay Area funding?
A Robotics Row team in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, is raising $750,000 in pre-seed funding for a water tank inspection robot. It already has two municipal utility pilots and a working prototype, but local backers are scarce. The founder used the articuler CLI to shortlist about 40 angels with industrial or robotics operations backgrounds; about one-third are in Pittsburgh or Cleveland, and the rest are on the East and West Coasts. The core dilemma: local investors can see the robot in person, while coastal investors write bigger checks but first ask whether the team will move to the Bay Area.
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