Ahmed shubber
@ahmedshubber25
Founder/CEO of @Luminavehicles • Building electric autonomous construction equipment
Our vehicles can draw power from the grid, onsite generators, or with our very own PowerPacks—a 3,500 kWh energy container delivered directly to a job site.
What is your plan for recharging or battery swapping?
A great example of why vehicle design is hard. Our exterior covers & interior trim molds are quite large.
mold design is easily one of the most complex disciplines in engineering progressive mold design, in particular, is one of the most daunting areas from a CAD and engineering considerations perspective In my opinion, nothing else comes close the people I’ve met who do this well…
A team of 5 full time people @ Lumina built a database of 45,000 excavation companies in 4 months. Everything from owner info, location, revenue, and size. We don’t guess market conditions—we map them.

Alot of these company owners knew about Lumina before I even reached out.
People said we needed a ex KKR head or banker to get an M&A deal done. I cold emailed 467 companies in 2 weeks, flew out at 4am to meet the target, and signed a term sheets in 5 weeks.
We’ve crossed 10,000 followers & 2,500 on the Lumina page in just one month. We’re just getting started. Now let’s get back to work.
All 4 of these configurations have been in development the last 14 months. First units begin assembly Q4 2025. Q1 2026, they’ll be introduced into our excavation fleet.
Lumina’s ML6 isn’t just a dozer It’s a single platform that brings together the power of 20 different vehicles. Modularity.
If you made toy-sized versions you'd still be a billion dollar company.
D10 vs ML6 More power, Modular, Same blade size but 48% smaller footprint for easy transport.

We're aiming to have 15 patents filed by year end 2025.

We’re interviewing a COO who scaled a venture-backed construction tech company to $100M in revenue before it was acquired. He told me, “I heard about your electric dozer before you even reached out.” That’s when it hit me, we’re building a real brand.
To build something like Lumina(quickly), you need to execute flawlessly across dozens of domains at once: controls, supply chain, vent design, assembly, and distribution. Most companies focus on one domain. We focus on many. It's worked well for us.

I’ve gotten a lot of bad advice from people with zero skin in Lumina My advice to founders: tune out the noise and trust your gut. Most of these people have never built real companies or complex products.
When we were getting started, nearly every VC urged us to use a contract manufacturer. I met with many—but my gut told me to keep assembly in-house. The company we were about to choose demanded millions upfront—and went bankrupt soon after.