Foundry, a manufacturing-as-a-service startup that builds factories with robots powered by physical AI models, raised a $100M Series A led by Marlinspike
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$100M into ‘factories as code’ is a bet that physical AI plus robots can turn manufacturing capacity into a cloud-like service. If you rely on contract manufacturing, start mapping which SKUs or processes could move to autonomous lines—your next supply-chain advantage may come from API calls, not geography.
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