SOMATIC vs PTC
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NY autonomous bathroom cleaning robots for commercial offices at $1,000/month subscription; YC W20 $21.5M cutting cleaning costs 50% with door-opening, elevator-riding robots competing with Brain Corp for commercial janitorial services.
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SOMATIC is a New York-based autonomous commercial cleaning robotics company — backed by Y Combinator (W20) with $21.5 million raised including $13.7 million in equity funding in January 2025 from AG Collective Capital, C2 Ventures, Cathexis Ventures, Gaingels, and Mana Ventures — deploying autonomous trolley-bot robots that clean commercial bathrooms in office buildings for $1,000 per month (no upfront fees, monthly subscription model), navigating hallways, opening doors, riding elevators, and spraying and wiping all bathroom surfaces for 40 hours per week while living in dedicated closet spaces within the building. Founded in 2019, SOMATIC targets the commercial janitorial services market for office buildings where consistent, audit-compliant bathroom cleaning is a high-frequency labor cost that autonomous robots can reduce by up to 50%.
Boston industrial CAD/PLM software (NASDAQ: PTC); FY2025 8.5% ARR growth, Kepware/ThingWorx IoT divested to TPG (Nov 2025) under new CEO Neil Barua competing with Siemens Teamcenter for discrete manufacturer PLM.
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PTC Inc. is a Boston, Massachusetts-based industrial software company — publicly traded on NASDAQ (NASDAQ: PTC) as an S&P 500 component — providing computer-aided design (CAD), product lifecycle management (PLM), application lifecycle management (ALM), service lifecycle management (SLM), and industrial IoT software to manufacturers across aerospace, defense, automotive, medical devices, and industrial machinery. In FY2025 (fiscal year ended September 30, 2025), PTC reported 8.5% ARR growth and 16% free cash flow growth, with Q4 FY2025 revenue up 39% in constant currency and 18% year-over-year. CEO Neil Barua took over from long-tenured CEO James Heppelmann in February 2024 and introduced the "Barua Blueprint" refocusing PTC on its core CAD/PLM/ALM/SLM strengths. In November 2025, PTC announced the divestiture of its industrial IoT assets — Kepware and ThingWorx — to TPG, sharpening its portfolio around design and lifecycle management software. PTC's product portfolio includes Creo (3D parametric CAD for mechanical engineers), Windchill (PLM for product data and process management), Onshape (cloud-native CAD platform), and Arena (cloud-native PLM/QMS).
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