The Robot That Lives in Your Pipes Forever
Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau host TechMates, the NZVC podcast. The guest on this episode is Harrison Crowe-Maxwell, Co-founder of Puralink, and it went out on 22 January 2026. It covers the NZVC portfolio company Puralink.
- Guest
- Harrison Crowe-Maxwell, Co-founder of Puralink
- Date
- 22 January 2026
- Companies
- Puralink
- Watch
- YouTube
- Listen
- Spotify
Harrison Crowe-Maxwell, co-founder of Puralink, builds robots he calls ferrets to inspect and repair pipe infrastructure from the inside. He traces his path from soccer-playing robots in high school to the problem that 30% of the world's drinking water is lost to leaks, and the flooded street on his way to work that started the company. He explains the engineering behind robots that crawl vertically up pipes, the Apple ecosystem vision for underground infrastructure, and how he went from bootstrapping with his co-founder to backing from Peak XV, formerly Sequoia India and SEA.
- From LEGO Mindstorms to industrial robotics.
- Solving the global water crisis with robots.
- The Best Part is No Part engineering philosophy.
- Raising capital from Sequoia's Peak XV.
Companies in this episode
Robotics, Deep Tech, Infrastructure, Water Crisis, Hardware, Australia