Jupe

With a team that has previously worked and engineered for Tesla and SpaceX, Jupe builds and designs eco-friendly and portable off-grid dwellings that come complete with an internet connection. From rentals to disaster relief to community building, Jupe partners with landowners to create shelters that are durable and available for living within hours of delivery.

• 🚀  Build from 1st principles - The laws of physics don’t preclude Jupe from making millions of homes that are off-grid, recyclable, portable, and affordable. While all of these things are difficult in isolation and extremely difficult in concert, no law of the universe is stopping us. So we will do this starting narrow, and incrementally expanding up from there. Align to first principles
• ⭐️ Hire star babies - If we’re going to solve the housing problem, we’ll need a squad that is best of the best. ‘Star babies’ are the best of the best. Star babies are the 10Xers. They work smarter, faster and harder, they don’t tolerate bad attitudes or bullshit, they know that any job is their job, and you know who they are because everyone they once worked with now want to work for Jupe just to work with a star baby again. Hire only star babies
• 🥧 Make it f*cking simple - Use as little time, space and resource as possible and reduce to the most basic solution to the problem. Adding a feature to something, having another meeting or adding a part is easy, but removing — removing things while improving them is hard. The best part is no part, the best line of code is no line of code, the best hire is no new hire, and the best meeting is no meeting. Make it f*cking simple
• 🐶  Eat the dog food - ‘Dogfooding’ is startup slang for the act of using what you make I.e. ‘eating your own dog food’. As we’re making infrastructure for entire villages, we can literally live life in what we make, which may mean we’re the first to sleep in a Jupe living unit, cook in a Jupe kitchen, shower in a Jupe shower, harvest tomatoes in a Jupe garden, even p*ssing in the Jupe prototype toilet
• 🏎  Outrun the problem - Humanity is in a footrace against some very big problems and Jupe has focused its sights on one of the largest: housing. We are currently behind and these problems are running faster than those of us trying to catch up (and surpass) them. This will take incredibly hard work and moving faster than even we know we can

Total funding: $11.5m