Jake Loosararian

Extracted Attributes

• Age

  33 years old (as of November 2024)

• Gender

  male

• Education

  GCSEs and A-levels from St. Edwards School, Cheltenham, England (2005-2008)

• Birthplace

  Columbia, Maryland, United States

• Grew up in

  D.C. area, United States

• Occupation

  Chief Executive Officer

• Homeschooled

  Yes, by his mother

• Gecko Robotics Valuation

  Approximately $633 million (as of November 2024)

Timeline

• Began studies at St. Edwards School in Cheltenham, England, for GCSEs and A-levels. (Source: web_search_results)

  2005-09-01

• Completed studies at St. Edwards School. (Source: web_search_results)

  2008-07-31

• Began Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Electrical Engineering at Grove City College. (Source: web_search_results)

  2009-09-01

• Co-founded TeamGCC, a nonprofit organization at Grove City College, which established a Needs-Based Diversity Scholarship by bicycling across the USA. (Source: web_search_results)

  2011-09-01

• Served as President of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) chapter at Grove City College. (Source: web_search_results)

  2012-08-01

• Graduated from Grove City College with a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and co-founded Gecko Robotics. (Source: web_search_results)

  2013-05-01

• Began working 100-hour weeks to save $30,000-$40,000 to fund Gecko Robotics in its early years. (Source: web_search_results)

  2013-05-01

• Featured in a Forbes article highlighting his role as Founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics and its mission to protect critical infrastructure. (Source: web_search_results)

  2022-06-20

• Featured in a Fortune article detailing how he built Gecko Robotics from a college project into a company valued at $600 million. (Source: web_search_results)

  2024-04-17

• Featured in a CNBC article discussing his journey in building Gecko Robotics, which was valued at $633 million. (Source: web_search_results)

  2024-11-23

Web Search Results

• Jake Loosararian - The World Economic Forum

  Jake Loosararian is the co-founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics, the company combining advanced robotics and AI-powered software.

• Jake Loosararian Builds Gecko Robotics To Protect Critical ... - Forbes

  Gecko Robotics Founder and CEO Jake Loosararian. Gecko Robotics Founder and CEO Jake Loosararian. [...] How do we make the most of what we have? Gecko Robotics may be one answer. Founded in 2013 by Jake Loosararian and fellow Grove City College alumni and Carnegie Mellon MBA, Troy Demmer, Gecko’s mission is to protect critical infrastructure through the collection and contextualization of physical data collected via “Gecko-like” robots that crawl inside harsh and dangerous environments like nuclear reactors and giant boilers. [...] Loosararian was born in Columbia, Maryland, and grew up in the D.C. area. His father worked in a classified role for the government and was home schooled by his mother. “Funny that my co-founder was also homeschooled. So we created this need to learn for ourselves and also follow our curiosity. That kind of drove me more to engineering and allowed me the freedom to pursue things more deeply,” says Loosararian.

• Gecko Robotics CEO: How I built my unlikely multimillion-dollar startup

  33-year-old once worked 100-hour weeks to save $40,000 for his robotics startup—now it's worth $633 million =========================================================================================================== Published Sat, Nov 23 2024 9:15 AM EST Image 4: thumbnail Tom Huddleston Jr. Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via Email Jake Loosararian, co-founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics. Source: Gecko Robotics [...] _This story is part of__CNBC Make It's__The Moment series, where highly successful people reveal the critical moment that changed the trajectory of their lives and careers, discussing what drove them to make the leap into the unknown._ Jake Loosararian's nine-figure business might've never existed if he'd listened to the people he trusts most. [...] After graduating college in 2013, Loosararian co-founded Pittsburgh-based Gecko Robotics. He worked 100-hour weeks to save "$30,000 or $40,000" and fund his startup's first few years of existence, he says. He spent a lot of that time in some dark places — going broke, sleeping on friends' floors and climbing inside power plant boilers, which are "dirty and horrible," he notes. Repeatedly, he almost walked away.

• Jake Loosararian - Gecko Robotics, Inc. | LinkedIn

  # Jake Loosararian Co-Founder and CEO of Gecko Robotics Pittsburgh, US 5427 connections, 7225 followers ## About Making the world safer with robots ## Experience ### Founder & Chief Executive Officer Gecko Robotics, Inc. May 2013 - Present Robo-burgh, NYC, Boston, Abu Dhabi, Houston, Washington DC Building the default platform for the health of the built world. [...] ### President of the IEEE Grove City College August 2012 - July 2013 None None ### Co-Founder of TeamGCC (Nonprofit) Grove City College September 2011 - August 2012 United States Team GCC founded a Needs-Based Diversity Scholarship by bicycling across the USA (Seattle to NYC). Co-founded the Team GCC Scholarship Endowment to bring diversity and student aid to Grove City College. [...] ## Education ### Grove City College Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Electrical Engineering 2009 - 2013 None ### St. Edwards School Cheltenham, England: GCSEs and A-levels 2005 - 2008 None ## Publications N/A ## Honors & Awards Project Leader Grove City College Engineering Department April 2013 ## Certifications N/A ## Volunteering N/A ## Languages N/A ## Organizations N/A ## Activity N/A ## People Also Viewed N/A

• Gecko's founder built a $600 million robot company from a college ...

  As an electrical engineering student at Pennsylvania’s Grove City College in 2013, Jake Loosararian traveled to Costa Rica for vacation. One day, he and a college friend camped in a rain forest on the country’s Pacific coast and drifted to sleep on hammocks they brought from home, to the sounds of shouting monkeys and scurrying lizards. [...] Gecko’s founder built a $600 million robot company from a college project | Fortune =============== - [x] SEARCH Image 2: Jake Loosararian stands next to a Gecko robot climbing a wall Jake Loosararian turned a senior project into a startup in 2013 and has spent the last 11 years building it. Courtesy of Gecko Robotics [...] He was questioning his decision to build Gecko, she told _Fortune._ Now sitting up, Loosararian and English discussed if he still believed in the company, which he said he did. Image 4: Jake Loosararian poses with an early prototype of the robot Jake Loosararian with an early prototype of the robot. Courtesy of Yvonne English

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• Gender

  male

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  chief executive officer