June
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
June was a smart oven startup founded in 2013 by Matt Van Horn (co-founder of Zimride, which became Lyft) and Nikhil Bhogal, both former Apple engineers. The June Oven sold for $1,495 and packed a built-in scale, restaurant-grade heating elements, a camera and AI food-recognition software able to identify foods such as chicken breast and cook them perfectly. It raised about $29.5 million from investors including the Amazon Alexa Fund, Lerer Hippeau, M13 and Lumia Capital. In January 2021 it was acquired by Weber for undisclosed terms and became a strategic business unit; Weber stopped making June ovens in 2022 and shut off the app and cloud services on September 22, 2026.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founding
June is founded by Matt Van Horn and Nikhil Bhogal, building an AI-powered smart oven with food-recognition technology.
- Acquired by Weber
Weber acquires June for undisclosed terms; June becomes a strategic business unit within Weber, with co-founder Matt Van Horn as president.
- Production ends
Weber stops manufacturing June ovens; existing ovens keep working with cloud support.
- Cloud shutdown
Weber shuts off the June Oven app and cloud services, ending app control, software updates and automatic food recognition; ovens remain usable as basic ovens.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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