Company Description The Robot Foundry (TRF), formerly known as Coboticca, is a Venture Studio for robotics startups based in Mumbai & Mysore, India. TRF focuses on R&D;, innovation, and IP development in robotics and AI in India/APAC and seeding 2-3 robotics startups a year in the US, Japan, and EU markets.

Role : Founding-CEO of a new spin-off

Industry : Restaurant (automation)

Location: Mumbai or Bengaluru

Comp: Up to 35 % (depending on time and financial commitments) + salary post-financing The vision The solution is a front-of-house co-pilot that orchestrates human staff and edge-robots to increase throughput, service consistency, and margins. Think: AI scheduling and tasking, real-time ops co-pilot for hosts/servers, and seamless orchestration with POS/KDS/robotic endpoints.

The solution is patent-pending.

Why now

Labour volatility, rising input costs, and guest expectations make FOH the next automation frontier. With integrations into POS/KDS and a human+robot orchestration layer, XPO is positioned to roll out in multi-unit restaurant groups.

What you’ll do

- Own strategy and outcomes from 0→1→10: PMF, lighthouse deployments, scale playbook.
- Build and lead the exec team (sales, ops, eng), board, and investor relationships.
- Drive enterprise GTM: multi-market pilots, pricing, contracts, and partnerships (POS/KDS, robotics, systems integrators).
- Raise capital and manage runway; align incentives and metrics across the org.
- Establish safety, compliance,



and deployment SOPs for human/robot workflows.
- Tell the story: recruit talent, galvanize customers, and represent XPO globally.

You might be

- Ex-Founder (restaurant focused SaaS) ideally but not necessarily with an exit, hungry for the next big build.
- VC in F&B; tech who wants to operate and own a category.
- VP Sales (SaaS / POS / KDS / robotics) who has led global teams and wants a founder’s seat.

What you bring

- Repeated success shipping and scaling a tech solution to restaurants / restaurant chains or running a chain of restaurants where you deployed technology - could have started in India but expanded to international markets
- Deep network in the restaurant industry across international markets would be ideal (APAC, Middle East, US)
- Capital formation experience (seed/Series A) or the gravitas to do it quick.
- Operator’s mindset: cadence, dashboards, and field time in live restaurants.

What we’ve built (confidential highlights)

- POC for the autonomous table-delivery robot V1 in one of the largest hotel brands (Mumbai hotel)
- Cutting-edge V2 prototype under development and to be tested (patent-pending)
- High-level AI architecture ready | multiple software modules ready - to be assimilated into the main stack
- Simulation will be ready in a few months
- Playbooks for staged deployment (guide staff → augment → automate) ready
- Market research and insights - in the US
- GTM strategy
- Marketing strategy
- Business plan and investor pitch

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