MegaBots Inc.

[1][2][3][4][5] In June 2015, MegaBots challenged Japan-based Suidobashi Heavy Industry to the world's first giant robot duel.

[18] The company then went on to raise a seed round of $3.85M dollars from investors including Autodesk, DCM, Maveron, Azure Capital, and AME Cloud Ventures.

The company won Best in Show at the 2017 LAUNCH Startup Festival and announced a total subscriber base of more than 250k, 20M+ video views, 29 billion press mentions, and an advertising equivalency value of $270M, which is one third of the brand value of the Transformers franchise during the period since MegaBots was founded.

[25] The company also announced its plans to launch spin-offs of the MegaBots entertainment brand in verticals such live events, sponsorship, TV/Digital, and merchandising.

[9][29][30][10][31][32] The match has since been viewed over 8.9M times and received a Guinness World Record in the category of "Largest Robots to Fight".