November 21st, 2011

(Founder Stories) Mick Mountz: “Solve A Big Problem & Take A Big Swing”

Having successfully created and launched a business where robots dart through distribution centers securing e-commerce products for delivery, Kiva Systems founder, Mick Mountz reflects on growing his company to 250 employees in just under a decade – and the company culture that organically formed alongside it.

Mountz tells Founder Stories host Chris Dixon that Kiva Systems didn’t define its… → Read More

November 20th, 2011

(Founder Stories) Mick Mountz: East Coast VC’s “Are Willing To Look At More One-Off Type Opportunities”

In episode II of his Founder Stories interview with host, Chris DixonKiva Systems founder, Mick Mountz discusses traversing the country in search of capital shortly after launching his company almost a decade ago.

With plans to disrupt the picking, packing and shipping industry, Moutz went shopping for investors on Sand Hill Road and found none. He says “they were retrenching at the time… → Read More

November 18th, 2011

(Founder Stories) Mick Mountz, Kiva Systems: “We Have Been Growing At Over 100% A Year”

After electronically ordering a shredder for your files following a pivot and a case of bottled water to wash away lessons learned, you may have set in motion one of Mick Mountz’s Roomba like robots to fetch the items for you in a warehouse that uses his Kiva Systems technology. The interconnected hardware and software package is designed to streamline the process of picking, packing and… → Read More

September 7th, 2009

Workers Of The World, Meet Your Robot Replacements

Industrial robots are nothing new, but they are getting more and more sophisticated. Watch the video above of the swarming robot warehouse pickers made by Kiva Systems. They are like orange industrial Roombas that go out and find inventory in a warehouse and bring it back to human workers to pack for shipping. Don’t fear them. Really, they are just here to help.

Zappos and Staples use the… → Read More