Construction still runs on manual labor, and in U.S. residential construction alone that labor costs ~$250 billion a year, getting scarcer and more expensive every year. An autonomous robotic workforce for construction, starting with painting and ending with fully autonomous jobsites. A single robot displaces ~$1.8 million in labor over its life, and customers keep the savings.

Mauricio pairs MIT robotics with a construction upbringing: his family's general contracting business in Florida gives him real job sites to build for, plus paid pilots already lined up and waiting for the prototype. Three LOIs, paid pilots waiting, and a robot that pays for itself many times over. The raise opens in August.