🦾 Atom Limbs Raises $1.5M for Prosthetics

Here’s Why I Angel-Invested $500 into Atom Limbs

🏃🏻 Rundown

• One-Liner: The World’s 1st Artificial Arm
• Based In: Menlo Park
• Starting Year: 2022
• Industry: Medtech, Hardware
• Market: projected $1B in LTV
• Business Model: B2C
• Investment Round: $1.7M Seed
• Early Traction: $180M+ pipeline of 9,000 qualified buyers
• CEO sold last company Bebo to Amazon & has scaled companies to 1B users

founder story/problem/market-fit

More than 65M people in the world — including 4M in the United States — live without a limb. 1.5M people undergo amputation every single year. — By 2050, instances of limb loss are projected to double. Yet only 5% of people with limb loss have access to prosthetics, many of which still rely on technology that’s over a century old, dating back to 1912!

• Tyler Hayes — Serial entrepreneur. Bebo Co-Founder & COO (acquired by Amazon). Employee #10 at YC-backed Disqus (acquired by Zeta). Scaled companies from 0–100 employees to 1 billion users. Funded by top VCs Village Global, MXB, and Techstars. Psychology…