FoldiMate
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Company type | Privately owned |
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| Industry | Home automation |
| Founded | September 6, 2012 |
| Founders | Gal Rozov |
| Headquarters | Silicon Valley, California, US |
| Products | Laundry folding robot |
| Website | foldimate.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2022-05-22) |
| Footnotes / references As of 2025, the URL to the original FoldiMate website (foldimate.com) is owned by Miele.[1] | |
FoldiMate, Inc. was a California-based company developing a robotic laundry-folding machine founded in 2012. Their clothes folding machine was aimed to enter the market by the end of 2019. In 2021, the company folded.
FoldiMate, Inc. was founded on September 6, 2012,[2] by Gal Rozov, an Israeli software engineer who decided that folding laundry was a tedious chore that could be done effectively by a robot.[3] In 2010, Rozov quit his job as a software developer and product manager and spent two years developing his laundry-folding device. In 2012, he moved to the United States to work with a robotic team in Silicon Valley. By 2013, he had a patented technology. In 2016, after an initial round of investment, he produced the first prototype.[4] The prototype presented at CES 2017 generated much interest.[5]
The company exhibited an updated prototype of Foldimate at CES 2018.[6]
In January 2018, BSH Hausgeräte expressed an interest in partnering with Foldimate.[7]
On August 30, 2021, the company sent an email to customers who submitted the $85 deposit informing them that the company has gone bankrupt and is requiring customers to submit a form to get the $85 deposit back. The email was titled "Cessation of Business - Deposit claim NOTICE" and began with the line "I hereby inform you that FoldiMate, inc. (“FOLDIMATE”) ceased its business operations". Customers were required to submit the form by February 1, 2022, with disbursements beginning after February 1, 2022. The customer was asked to supply the deposit amount and date. Payments were offered via PayPal or credit card.[citation needed]
