Matic Robots Founders' Lore: Sold Flutter to Google for $40M, Bet $1.5M on Home Robot
heyshrutimishra · x · 2026-08-14
An X user shares the story behind Matic's founders: Mehul Nariyawala and Navneet Dalal built Flutter gesture tech, acquired by Google for $40M in 2013, worked on Google Nest, then left to co-found Matic Robots, investing $1.5M of their own money and spending 7 years in stealth to build an intuitive home robot.
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