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The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Robotic systems for preparing food and serving meals.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
6d bytes, Inc. is incorporated in Delaware in November 2015 (registering in California that December) by founders Vipin Jain, Venki Ayalur, and Vijay Dodd; it builds robotic and AI-enabled food automation solutions under the brand name Blendid.
- Jamba pilot and first crowdfunding
The company opens its first 'Jamba by Blendid' robotic smoothie kiosk in Dixon, California, and closes an oversubscribed StartEngine crowdfunding round.
- Second crowdfunding, $20M total
Blendid closes a second oversubscribed crowdfunding round ($2 million via 1,475 investors), bringing total investment to $20 million through venture capital, strategic investors, and crowdfunding; it signs a commercial agreement with a major food service operator.
- Love's Travel Stops expansion
Blendid expands its 'Jamba by Blendid' kiosks to Love's Travel Stops locations and reports 500+ robotic smoothie kiosks in contract across venues including Walmart, universities, and airports.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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