Origin raises $20M for OG-1 wall-finishing robots: Accel and Zacua co-lead

Origin, a San Francisco company that builds a robot to finish interior walls, came out of stealth on Oct 15 with $20M in total funding co-led by Accel and Zacua Ventures, the company said in a release on its website. Unilazer Ventures, Schema Ventures, Z21, ISAI and Imad Ventures also invested, together with angel investors from Anduril, Skild AI, 1X and Tesla. Accel published its own investment note the same day. Origin did not split the $20M into rounds, and Accel's note says the team reached live customer deployments before raising a Series A.

The money buys robots on job sites, not more research

Origin said most of the funding will go into building out its fleet of OG-1 robots, with the rest paying for larger customer pilots in the US and Europe and for extending the platform to more interior trades. It named pilots with two of the largest drywall finishing contractors in the US and said further pilots are scheduled in Germany, Sweden, France and Saudi Arabia. The company is targeting 150 robots deployed by the end of 2027 and plans to add taping, drywall installation, drilling and conduit installation on the same hardware.

OG-1 applies joint compound, sands and primes walls. According to the company it moves on a three-wheeled base with a 360-degree view, reaches up to 14 feet, and holds sanding pressure steady against the wall through real-time force control; it works beside crews without a cordoned-off area. The software, which Origin calls a Construction Action Model, has three layers: a reasoning system that plans sub-tasks, an action policy that navigates, finds where to work and chooses tools, and a controller that executes the motion. It is trained on high-fidelity simulation and data from live sites. Crews still handle site mapping and material refills, the release said.

Origin was founded in early 2025 by Yogesh Ghaturle, Ashish Daga and Tushar Makkar and put its first robots on New York job sites within 10 months, it said. Ghaturle previously founded Perpule, a point-of-sale software company that Amazon acquired in 2021. Origin's website counts more than 100,000 square feet completed and 5,000 hours worked, which gives at least 20 square feet per robot hour (100,000 / 5,000, MEKAWIRE calculation). The company also claims three times human speed but has not published how it measured that. Zacua founding partner Vivin Hegde has joined the board.