Yards don’t mow themselves. Snow doesn’t clear itself. Leaves don’t vanish on a polite breeze. Until now. Yarbo, out of New York City by way of Ronkonkoma, just closed its Series B+ strategic funding in July 2025, a multi-million dollar round with heavyweight backing from CAS Investment, CICC Capital, and Joyoung’s venture arm. This isn’t just fuel in the tank. It’s the next gear in a machine that’s been quietly re-engineering how we deal with the outdoors.
The story started in 2015, when Founder and CEO Allen Huang launched Snowbot to solve the ice-covered nightmare most people call “winter.” With a Master’s in Automotive Engineering from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the mechanical chops to turn theory into torque, Huang didn’t just build a snowblower. He built the seed of a platform. By 2022, Snowbot rebranded to Yarbo, expanding from snow to lawn to leaf to everything in between. Co-Founder Kenneth Kohlmann brought twelve years of marketing firepower to make sure the world didn’t just see a robot, they saw the future of yard care.
The future comes in modules. Yarbo’s “1+N” design is a core robot with interchangeable attachments: snow blower, lawn mower, leaf blower, trimmer, granular spreader. Swap them in minutes, let the AI brain, with RTK-GPS, computer vision, and centimeter-level accuracy, do the rest. This thing mows 6.2 acres, clears a foot of snow, pulls 3,500 pounds, climbs 35-degree slopes, and runs up to 210 minutes before wireless charging. No perimeter wires, no wandering into your neighbor’s koi pond.
Growth isn’t a buzzword here; it’s math. Over 6,000 pre-orders in 2024. More than 5,000 units shipped. In one livestream this spring, 702 units moved in two hours, pulling in $850K. They’re in 20+ countries now, chasing 4-5x sales growth for 2025. And the trophy shelf? CES 2025 Best of Innovation, TWICE Picks Award, The Ambient Best in Show, plus 180K-plus social followers watching every move.
The Series B+ will push R&D, sharpen Yarbo’s AI vision recognition, and scale globally into North America, Europe, Japan, and Australia. Modules are multiplying, from trimmers to pro-grade mowers to granular spreaders, each one aimed at making year-round yard work something you think about less and enjoy more.
In an industry where “smart” usually means an app that tells you your grass is sad, Yarbo is building a machine that actually does the work. That’s not marketing spin. That’s engineering meeting execution, with a business model built to scale faster than weeds in July.
