The Manufacturing Tech VC

Investing in Manufacturing Tech startups at the earliest possible stage

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Our Thesis

Digitization of
Value Chains.

Value Chain infrastructure is hindered by outdated software and hardware, leading to inefficiencies and higher costs. Strategic implementation of Manufacturing Tech is crucial to accelerate the industry to its full potential.

Our Differentiator

We’ve Been There.

We’re all engineers and builders ourselves. We offer our founders many ways to accelerate, beyond just money.

We’re Hands On

Given our technical and business expertise, we can understand your product and help you find your GTM strategy and bridge the gap between your engineering ideas to strong business applications

Our Industry Insider Network

We connect early stage founders to strategic partners in the industry for industry insights, early customer adoption, and partnerships

Our Time

We’re here when you need us - day or night through the good and the bad.

We’re Hands On

Given our technical and business expertise, we can understand your product and help you find your GTM strategy and bridge the gap between your engineering ideas to strong business applications

Our Industry Insider Network

We connect early stage founders to strategic partners in the industry for industry insights, early customer adoption, and partnerships

Our Time

We’re here when you need us - day or night through the good and the bad.

Portfolio

  • Seed

    Factor

    The supply chain co-pilot. Factor is changing the way companies manage their supply chains from reactive to proactive by enabling them to manage by exception, freeing up time to work on the harder things - strengthening vendor relationships and sourcing new vendors.

  • Seed

    Mimiq

    The logistics digitization solution. Using 5th generation industrial IOT to disrupt Logistics Chain Tracking with 10X reliability and 100X energy efficiency. Digitizing the $120B+ shipping container market.

  • Seed

    Carbon

    The next generation of connected materials. Carbon Mobile is enabling market leaders to replace metals with sustainable and bio-based composite materials in connected devices.

  • Pre-Seed

    Stealth

    The operating system for modern machine shops. Transforming the manufacturing market (>$500B global) with an end-to-end business operating system. Inspired and informed by how Toast, Shopify, and Service Titan modernized their fragmented, inefficient, disconnected markets with vertical software.

  • Pre-Seed

    Dystr

    The autonomous technical project manager. Autonomos project management for unstructured technical environments.

  • Pre-Seed

    Stealth

    The mechanical design co-pilot. Modernizing communication between mechanical designers and manufacturers.

Factor

 

 

Mimiq

 

 

Carbon

 

 

Stealth

 

 

Dystr

 

 

Stealth

Our Criteria

What we look for.

For us to best support you, we look for the following things

Deal Parameters
First Round, First Check, ideally $2M round size or less
Technical Teams
You have lived and breathed the problem you’re solving in industry for 3+ years
Verticals
Enterprise Manufacturing Tech in the following sectors
  • Digital Engineering
  • Manufacturing
  • Robotics
  • Supply Chain
  • Future of Work
Business Models
Enterprise Industrials SaaS and Capital-Light Hardware as a Service

Facing the future,
together.

  • Simon Lancaster
    General Partner
  • Sabrina Paseman
    General Partner
  • Lucas Whipple
    Venture Partner
  • Steven Myers
    Associate
  • Rohan Athavale
    Intern
  • Alex Huckstepp
    Advisor
  • Sebastian Spritzer
    Advisor

Simon Lancaster

General Partner

Sabrina Paseman

General Partner

Lucas Whipple

Venture Partner

Steven Myers

Associate

Rohan Athavale

Intern

Alex Huckstepp

Advisor

Sebastian Spritzer

Advisor

News

Events

Deep Tech Nexus

The Deep Tech Nexus is a bi-annual DeepTech community event that brings together top DeepTech founders, investors, and LPs. The next event will be October 2024

Check out our latest event schedule here.