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Supervised Autonomous Heavy Equipment

teleo.ai
HQ: Palo Alto, CA, USA
11-50
Industrials

Company research

Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals

Updated Aug 16, 2026

Overview

Teleo builds supervised autonomy technology that retrofits existing heavy equipment so operators can control machines remotely and move between machines/job sites from a command center. The company positions itself around improving productivity, safety, and operator access in construction and mining.

Primary product

Teleo Supervised Autonomy platform for retrofitting heavy equipment with remote and supervised autonomous operation

Founded

2019

Headquarters

Palo Alto, California, United States

Team size

11-50

Industry

Automation Machinery Manufacturing

Sub-industry

Construction robotics / heavy equipment autonomy

Business model

B2B software/hardware retrofit platform
enterprise sales to construction, mining, and material-moving operators
dealer/channel-led distribution

Funding

Stage

Series A extension

Total raised

$29.8M

Latest round

Series A extension · Nov 2024

Latest amount

$16.2M

Series A extension

Nov 2024 · UP.Partners

$7M

Series A

Jun 2022 · UP.Partners

$12M

Seed

Mar 2020 · Trucks Venture Capital

People & investors

Leadership

Vinay Shet

Co-founder and CEO

Rom Clement

Co-founder & CTO

Karthik Chellappan

Director of Software Integration

Investors

F-Prime Capital
Hitachi Construction Machinery Challenge
K9 Ventures
Triatomic Capital
Trousdale Ventures
Trucks Venture Capital
UP.Partners
Y Combinator

Work & culture

Public evidence emphasizes safety, productivity, accessibility, and operator comfort. Teleo’s own communications highlight supervised autonomy, remote command-center operation, and use of real-world deployment data to improve the product. No reliable public benefits page was surfaced in the search results.

Compensation

No public compensation page or salary data for Teleo was found in the searched sources. Public job-posting evidence surfaced only role titles, not pay ranges.

Product & market

Pricing

Not publicly disclosed; likely enterprise sale of retrofit hardware/software plus deployment/service components

Differentiators

  • —Retrofits existing fleets instead of requiring new autonomous machines
  • —Supervised autonomy lets one operator oversee multiple machines remotely
  • —Focus on heavy equipment in construction, mining, and material-moving industries
  • —Emphasis on incremental path to full autonomy and real-world deployment data
  • —Channel/dealer partnerships mentioned in public posts

Technology

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terraform
bash
linux
harness
netsuite
altium
pytorch
typescript
ubuntu
google cloud platform
asana
microsoft
google cloud
google workspace
microsoft azure
jira
ramp
react
aws lambda','github','quickbooks','javascript','git','mlops','matlab','c

Customers

construction operators
mining operators
material-moving / heavy machinery operators
large operators using wheel loaders, terminal tractors, excavators, articulated dump trucks

Competitors

Built Robotics
Pronto
SafeAI
Kodiak Robotics (adjacent autonomy)
Mightily/other heavy-equipment autonomy vendors

Scale & contact

Estimated revenue

$1M-$10M (public estimate); Exa surfaced ~$1.8M annual revenue

Estimated monthly visits

4K

Traffic estimate as of Jun 2026

Signals & risks

Other
Mar 2026

Teleo was acquired by HavocAI, according to Teleo’s LinkedIn activity and company references labeling it as a HavocAI company.

Source

Latest news

Havoc Advances All-Domain Collaborative Autonomy Through Acquisitions of Mavrik and Teleo

PR Newswire · Mar 2026

Havoc announced it had closed the acquisitions of Mavrik and Teleo and framed Teleo as its land-domain autonomy capability for heavy machinery.

Teleo raises $16.2M to scale supervised autonomy for heavy equipment

The Robot Report · Nov 2024

Summarizes the extension round and Teleo’s plan to scale deployments and expand to new industries.

Teleo wants to help the robotics industry reach its ‘ChatGPT moment’

TechCrunch · Nov 2024

Coverage of Teleo’s funding and product approach, emphasizing supervised autonomy and LLM-enhanced operator efficiency.

Teleo Raises $16.2 Million in Series A Extension Funds Led by UP.Partners

PR Newswire · Nov 2024

Teleo announced a $16.2M Series A extension in two tranches and said total funding since inception reached $29.8M.

Our Strategic Expansion to Bring Autonomous Operations to Industries Beyond Construction

Teleo blog · Oct 2024

Teleo announced expansion beyond construction into pulp and paper, logging, port logistics, munition clearing, agriculture, snow removal, and related industries.

About / TeamAcquisition press releaseBlogCareersCompany LinkedInContactHomepageInstagramLinkedIn - Karthik ChellappanLinkedIn - Rom Clement
SourcesTeleo websiteTeleo Series A announcementPR Newswire Series A extensionTechCrunch coverageThe Robot Report coverage

Jobs and careers at Teleo

10 jobs at Teleo

Senior Technical Program Manager

On-site
Palo Alto, CA
2mo ago
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Lead Perception Engineer

On-site
Palo Alto, CA
3mo ago
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Electrical Integration Engineer

On-site
Palo Alto, CA
4mo ago
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Senior Electrical Engineer

On-site
Palo Alto, CA
4mo ago
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Logistics & Inventory Associate

On-site
Palo Alto, CA
4mo ago
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Senior Mechanical Engineer, Vehicle Integration & Validation

On-site
Various
6mo ago
On-site
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Field Deployment Technician

Remote
Florida
7mo ago
Remote
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Senior Autonomy Controls Engineer – Learning-Based Control

On-site
Palo Alto, CA
7mo ago
On-site
Full-time
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Senior Full Stack Engineer

On-site
Palo Alto, CA
7mo ago
On-site
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Head of Sales & Business Development

Remote
Various
8mo ago
Remote
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