{"id":128946,"date":"2025-09-09T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128946\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T00:34:09","slug":"grace-browns-robotics-start-up-andromeda-just-scored-a-100-million-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/128946\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Brown\u2019s robotics start-up Andromeda just scored a $100 million valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andromeda, a robotics company building companion robots for the elderly, led by a 25-year-old Melburnian, is worth $100 million after scoring the biggest early-stage funding round for a woman-led start-up this year.<\/p>\n<p>Grace Brown, a mechatronic engineering graduate from the University of Melbourne who co-founded Andromeda with university friend Yan Chen in 2022, has closed a $23 million series A funding round from investors including San Francisco-based Forerunner Ventures, Rethink Impact and Main Sequence Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andromeda, a robotics company building companion robots for the elderly, led by a 25-year-old Melburnian, is worth $100&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-128946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}