Startup Spotlight #217: Paradigm Robotics
Paradigm Robotics builds next-generation robotic platform solutions for the most hazardous environments to serve those who serve.
Siddharth Thakur is a serial founder, researcher, roboticist, and innovator. He is the founder and CEO of Paradigm Robotics, a company building advanced robotics solutions to protect first responders in the most hazardous environments. Before founding Paradigm, he co-founded and served as the CTO of Gazelle Ecosolutions, a climate-tech startup developing geospatial data platforms that enable remote sensing for customers worldwide. Siddharth is the 2024 SXSW Pitch & Innovation Award winner, 2022 Greater Austin Business Awards Entrepreneur of the Year, one of Austin Inno’s top 24 under 24, was recognized as Diversity Magazine’s 20 under 20, and has been featured in TechCrunch, Fortune, and more.
Paradigm Robotics is building cutting-edge, advanced, and versatile robotic platform solutions that provide mission-critical situational awareness for firefighting, emergency response, public safety, industrial/O&G, and other industries. We help protect the brave in the most hazardous of environments.
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Startup Spotlight: Paradigm Robotics
Problem: Firefighters nationwide are regularly exposed to life-threatening situations while searching for human life in structural fires, leading to tens of thousands of injuries, dozens of fatalities each year, and lifelong health illnesses.
Market: With annual expenses staggering over $426 billion, structural fires, numbering over 500,000 annually, are a massive cost for U.S. Fire Departments, affecting over 1 million career firefighters across 29,000 fire departments. While our beachhead is with private fire departments/emergency response teams and departments with robotics programs ($500M SOM), this unsaturated and fragmented market is untapped and enormous, with massive barriers to entry, allowing us to scale with metropolitan fire departments ($11.4B SAM) and capture this $18.5B TAM.
Solution: Paradigm Robotics flagship product, FireBot, is the world’s first high-temperature resistant unmanned ground vehicle built to augment firefighting, public safety, and emergency operations in structure fires, emergencies, disasters, incidents, and hazardous environments. FireBot is an incredibly rugged and versatile obstacle climbing robot outfitted with a modular and advanced sensor suite that provides life-saving mission-critical situational awareness in the most hazardous conditions.
Team: The Paradigm Robotics team aims to develop cutting-edge solutions to bridge the gap between robotics and firefighting, a field that has yet to be developed. A team of serial founders, academics, engineers, researchers, and operators with over 40 years of experience in robotics, materials science, and real-world impact, we understand the importance of creating solutions for our brave firefighters.
Founder Advice:
Thakur: Knock on every door and open every door you can. So many opportunities are out there and are ripe for the picking. You never know what will happen, who you will meet, whose introductions will lead to the next, and where you will go. So try! Apply to things, reach out to people, attend events, and put yourself out there.
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Thakur: Here is one startup you should check out next!
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