13x is solving the robotics funding gap
I’ve spent the past two decades in investments and lending. Nothing is more obvious to me than the robotic revolution that’s about to come. But as an investor and business owner, the big issue is how this will be funded.
I’ve seen how capital moves, how cycles form, and how value gets created when money meets innovation. The pattern is always the same. Technology shifts fast, banks stay slow.
At 13x, our goal is simple: to finance the robotic workforce economy.
Banks and traditional lenders live in a rigid ecosystem. They’re large beasts, slow to move, late to adapt. The robotic revolution is a race, a sprint. Speed to market and adoption will shape business results for decades to come.
That’s why we can’t wait. We need to move now. At 13x, we’re building the financing needed to help businesses adopt robotics into their workforce. These aren’t depreciating capital assets; they’re revolutionary tools that will multiply productivity and profit.
Robots are moving from labs to factories, warehouses, hospitals, and homes. They are not gadgets. They are capital assets, like trucks, buildings, or aircraft. But today, banks don’t know how to fund them.
Our experience gives us an edge. Over the past few years we’ve been building Flexdoc, a specialist lender to SME’s in Australia. We understood the gaps in business capital and how to solve for them.
We learned how to back people who fall outside the traditional system. The same problem now exists in robotics. Businesses want to adopt, but capital is stuck in old models.
13x exists to bridge that gap. We are building funding structures where robots are treated as productive assets. We see humanoids as the biggest product of this century. They will transform labour, capital, and how wealth is built. We want to be the financial partner of that transformation.
This is just the beginning. 13x will evolve from brokerage into investment management, from writing single deals to building a platform. Our mission is long term. We’re here to create a new market where robotics financing is clear, accessible, and scalable.
If you share this vision, I invite you to subscribe and join the waitlist. The robotic workforce economy is coming. We plan to fund it.
Peter Esho - Founder & CEO