Home Robot Startup Sunday Hits Unicorn Status With $165M Raise
Sunday just pulled in $165M at a $1.15B valuation to build autonomous robots for your house.
Sunday Inc. just crossed the unicorn threshold. The autonomous home robot startup closed a $165 million Series B led by Coatue, pushing its valuation to $1.15 billion.
The company is building what it calls a friendly-looking machine capable of handling household tasks autonomously. Think less industrial arm, more domestic helper.
Sunday plans to start testing its robots inside actual homes this year — a major leap from lab environments to the chaos of real kitchens, living rooms, and hallways.
The home robotics space has been littered with failures and overpromises for years. But investor appetite clearly hasn't cooled. Coatue leading a round this size signals serious conviction that the tech is finally getting close.
Whether Sunday can deliver on the dream of a truly useful home robot remains the billion-dollar question. Literally.