LifeHub, which develops the next -generation mobility "Transella (tentative name)", has announced on the 1st that CyberAgent Capital and Incubate Fund have raised 100 million yen in the sea drown.The company had previously raised 30 million yen from an incubate fund in the pre -sea drown, followed by it.
LifeHub was founded in January 2021 by Yuji Nakano (CEO).Mr. Nakano has longed for a robot since he was a child, studied robotics and drones at university, and then engaged in the development and research of mobility with the world's largest CAE vendor who got a job.His CTO Kazuhiro Nomiya, who works together, designs and develops biological machinery and artificial muscles, and Yasuhiro Arakawa of CSO is good at control systems and autonomous driving.It is being.
Lifehub is a startup that advocates Human Augmentation.His Transella, developed by the company, has a structure that looks like a wheel on human legs, and unlike conventional wheelchairs, it is possible to ride, crouch, stand up, overcome steps, and get on an escalator.It consists of Japanese parts that are good at miniaturization technology.The spatial movement solves issues such as inconvenience of the conventional wheelchair and the need for assistance.
Toru Akaura, a representative partner of Incubate fund, who undertook LifeHub's first financing (pre -drawing), told LifeHub as follows.
Hirofumi Kondo, President and CEO of CyberAgent Capital, who participated in the Sea Dround, will face LifeHub at the "Incubate Camp 14th" held last October.At this time, Kondo served as his LifeHub mentor, and received the third place in the Capitalist Award, where entrepreneurs evaluate the mentor's capitalist.
Robotics, which help people's movements and assist them, are not LifeHub for the first time, but if they are troublesome to wear or are troublesome, there are many things that cannot be used on a daily basis.Transella is a chair -shaped mobility, so you can't use it just by sitting.There will be needs all over the world because it can be used on stairs, steep slopes, bad roads, etc.The company plans to use the funded funds to develop a one -half model of the full size this spring.However, the global semiconductor shortage has dropped shadows here, and the schedule may shift behind.
The aim is deciding from the business perspective.LIFEHUB first develops as a high -performance wheelchair for the elderly and people with disabilities.In the future, we will aim for stairs lifting, automatic driving, sharing mobility services in B2B, and overseas expansion.At the moment, the purchase is planned to be offered for 1.5 million yen per car, and the sub -schools are provided for 10,000 yen per month for long -term care insurance, but the price may fluctuate significantly because we will develop a full -scale prototype in the future.do not have.
There have been startups that have developed robots for wheelchairs, mobility, and movement, but as a car and a person, it is clearly different from the past.Mr. Akaura and Kondo praised Nakano as "it may be an Iron mask born from Japan," based on the potential of its technology and business.