From a college lab to a global exit
In 2013, Bhavya Gohil and Atur Mehta were engineering students in Mumbai when a simple challenge set their course: could they build a chessboard a blind player could use against a computer, on a real board? Their answer, a board whose pieces moved on their own, stopped crowds at Maker Faire Rome in 2014.
They turned it into Square Off: the world's first telerobotic chessboard, a real wooden board where your opponent's pieces glide into place by themselves, whether they're across the table or across the planet. It became one of the most-funded hardware crowdfunding campaigns of its time, won a CES Innovation Award in Las Vegas, and was written up in TechCrunch, WIRED, The Wall Street Journal, and the BBC.
Tens of thousands of boards and 50+ countries later, venture-backed across multiple rounds, Square Off was acquired by Miko, a Bay Area robotics company, in 2022. Bhavya ran the company and the story; Atur built the product and the platform. Ten years on, they're still the same two operators, now building Horizon and doing for a handful of clients exactly what they did for themselves: strategy, product, and growth, owned end to end.
Square Off · the world's first robotic chessboard, designed, built, and sold by the founders.
Proof, not promises
We actually ship
Built and sold a product in 50+ countries.
Build and growth, one team
Zero to tens of thousands of customers.
We build what sells
Venture-backed. Acquired.
We earn attention
CES award. TechCrunch, WSJ, BBC.
Featured in TechCrunch · WIRED · The Wall Street Journal · BBC · Forbes. Venture-backed across multiple rounds. Both founders named to Forbes 30 Under 30.
Four principles we run on
No seam
One team for build and growth. No handoff where momentum and money leak away.
Strategy before build
We find the real bottleneck first, then build only what it needs.
Partner, not vendor
Measured on your growth, not our billable hours.
AI as the engine
Big-team output from a small team. You never pay for the buzzword.
A small, senior team, amplified by AI
We stay lean. You work directly with the people doing the thinking, not an account manager three layers removed. AI handles the heavy lifting, so a focused team moves faster and cheaper than a traditional agency or dev shop.
The result: senior strategic attention, full-stack capability, and startup speed, all in one relationship.
Two founders. Ten years. One team.
Bhavya Gohil
Built and sold Square Off, taking the world's first robotic chessboard from a Mumbai dorm room to a global brand and an acquisition by Miko, a Bay Area robotics company. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. At Horizon he owns strategy, brand, and growth, and works directly with every client.
Atur Mehta
The engineer behind the product. Atur architected Square Off's hardware and platform, holds patents on the technology, and later built a Flexport-style logistics platform. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree. At Horizon he owns software, AI, and the build, ten years and counting alongside Bhavya.