Ramp USA, Inc.

Curing Disability With Robotics

Company Information

Website:

https://www.ramp.us/

Sector:

Robotics

Location:

Boulder, CO

Ramp USA is on a mission to cure disability using robotics.

Its initial product is designed to aid the more than 11 million Americans confined to wheelchairs as a result of lower limb disabilities.

This product, called the Ramp Chair, is a battery-powered attachment that converts any manual wheelchair into an off-road electric vehicle. Long-term, this company aims to build robotic exoskeletons to make wheelchairs obsolete.

The Ramp Chair self-balances to “wheelie” over obstacles, and can climb over rocks and curbs. It can be controlled remotely, and navigate through grass, gravel, mud, and snow.

Weighing less than 35 pounds, it’s the lightest electric wheelchair in the world. And because it attaches to manual wheelchairs, even if the battery runs out, the user isn’t left stranded.

Ramp USA has completed a prototype of its chair, and pre-sales began in August 2019. The company completed the Techstars Boulder accelerator program, and received $100,000 in funding from a Thiel Fellowship grant.

Ramp USA’s advisors include Tesla’s former Director of Manufacturing Engineering, and the former CEO of ADI Wheelchairs. ADI developed the first carbon-fiber backrests and disc brakes for wheelchairs, and was acquired in 2015.

Team Background

Mel Du - Chief Executive Officer
Amro Eltayeb - Chief Technology Officer
Mitch Hooper - Electric Racecar Engineer
Peter Shaddock - Finance and Operations

Co-Investors

TechStars

Prominent accelerator for tech companies. Investments include Uber, ClassPass and Twilio.

Thiel Foundation

A private foundation created and funded by billionaire Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and early investor in Facebook.

Raising
$106.46K
Committed
$3,231 (3%)
Current Valuation
$3.98 million
Min. Investment
$100
Deal Type
Title III
(For all investors)
Offering Type
Equity
Finance History
  • $20K
    2018-12-01
    Unknown
Notable Investors
  • TechStars
  • Thiel Foundation
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