Founder & CEO | Robotics (HealthCare) at Founders Factory

<h1><strong>Founder &amp; CEO — NightWatch</strong></h1><p style="min-height:1.5em"><em>One robot. One floor. One job. The automation layer for US senior living</em></p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Location:</strong> United States</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><strong>Start date:</strong> ASAP</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1dxl88PpSjoSBjW0ULKMfhiK7V0AHoY24g6z1BOlYrnE/edit?slide=id.g3f526014c3a_0_0#slide=id.g3f526014c3a_0_0"><u>More about the concept here.</u></a></p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Founders Factory builds and funds startups together with exceptional entrepreneurs and the world's leading companies. Created by IPO-exited founders, we offer founders capital, operational support from a team of hands-on experts, and unrivalled access to a coalition of industry-leading corporate partners. Since 2015, Founders Factory's 450+ portfolio companies have secured 500+ pilots and commercial contracts with our partners.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">Our Studio partners with entrepreneurs at day one, developing new ideas, technologies and business models into high-growth companies. In partnership with a leading global industrial technology partner, we are building a new portfolio of ventures.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em"></p><h2><strong>About the Venture</strong></h2><p style="min-height:1.5em">America's ~1,900 continuing-care retirement communities (CCRCs) are the only elder-care buyers whose model rewards keeping residents healthier for longer: residents join at 75–80, pay a large entry fee (avg. ~$402k) plus $12–30k a month, and the community carries the lifetime cost of care. These campuses staff their night shifts at roughly twice the regulatory minimum — comfort-driven cover that can't simply be cut — and once holidays, sickness and cover are loaded, each night position carries ~$160k of true annual cost. Worse, the status quo causes the harm it exists to prevent: around 80% of falls happen in the window right after a nurse's check wakes the resident. Existing tech — pull cords, wearables, fixed sensors — is safety kit that never changes the staffing model.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">We are building NightWatch: a mobile UWB-radar robot that patrols the corridor at night, senses through doors and walls, and reports movement as fact — in bed, out of bed, in the bathroom, on the floor — never as clinical judgement. Data is monitored remotely, and staff are alerted only when a physical check is warranted. No cameras. No wearables. No per-room installation. Sold as robot-as-a-service, it delivers a two-to-three-month payback and is the easiest pilot in the category to say yes to: zero capex, zero installation, nothing entering residents' rooms, and fully reversible.</p><p style="min-height:1.5em">The unfair advantage: our partner brings a production robotics stack already live in market with a paying customer — autonomous navigation, do