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Arjun Subramaniam is the Founder and CEO of Factory Intelligence, a physical AI company training tactile foundation models for the real world. He's personally toured more than 70 factories deploying robots, and his co-founder Mike Strope spent 15 years in packaging, including a president seat at a
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Jared O'Leary is the CEO and co-founder of SirenOpt, a deep tech company building the manufacturing intelligence layer for advanced materials production. Their technology came out of a decade of plasma physics research at UC Berkeley - and they're already deployed at Tier-1 manufacturers across
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Thrilled to be a small backer here!! 💪 🚀 🙌 Mike Xia and Vijay Pradeep are extraordinary entrepreneurs and I'm super excited I get to back them on this journey!! Anvil Robotics has raised $6.5M led by hard-tech veterans Matter Venture Partners and Humba Ventures with participation from Supercharge.
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Gary Chen and Conley Oster of Raise Robotics have deployed robots on construction sites, in steel fabrication facilities, and in shipyards. Their view on humanoids is more nuanced - and more grounded - than the narrative driving most of the capital right now. Listen to the episode here: Summary: There is a
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Dr. Asad Tirmizi, Co-Founder and CEO of Trener Robotics, breaks down the full lifecycle of AI in industrial robotics. Listen to the episode here: We cover how models are actually built - the training pipelines, the data, and what separates people who've done it from people who'
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February 12, 2026 · Quanting Xie, Tongzhou Liao, Yonatan Biskdrag to rotate · scroll to zoom TL;DR: Robot dexterity is stuck behind many unsolved problems. This post focuses on one that we think is underappreciated: the gearbox. High-ratio gearboxes break sim-to-real transfer, destroy force transparency, and are the
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Derapi Raises $7M Seed Round to Scale the Software Infrastructure Behind Distributed Energy Ecosystem/PRNewswire/ -- Derapi, a software company building the connective infrastructure for the distributed energy ecosystem, today announced it has raised $7…Cision PR NewswireDerapi Feb 03 2026 Funding accelerates the adoption of a universal integration layer, as
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Congrats to Positron AI for raising $230M Series B co-led by Atreides Management, LP and DFJ Growth for their next generation inference AI accelerator !! 🦄 💕 🥂 Other investors include Arm, Qatar Investment Authority, Valor Equity Partners, Atreides Management, LP, Flume Ventures, Jump Trading, ARENA Private Wealth, Unless, SHACK15 Ventures, and many
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HYPRLABS Emerges from Stealth with HYPRDRIVE™, A “No-Priors” AI Architecture Learning Directly from Reality/PRNewswire/ -- HYPRLABS Inc. (HYPR), an AI robotics company based in San Francisco and Paris, today emerged from stealth with HYPRDRIVE™, a paradigm-shifting…Cision PR NewswireHYPRLABS Inc. Dec 18 2025 HYPRLABS Inc. is officially out
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The co-founders of a robotics company that seeks to improve the efficiency and safety of contract glazing work were named to Forbes’ annual 30 Under 30 list. The list, now in its 15th year, recognizes industry leaders who are leading transformative change within business, culture and entrepreneurship. Among the
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Fastino is thrilled to announce the launch of GLiNER2, the next-generation open source model from Fastino built for unified entity extraction, classification and structured data parsing. After the success of the original GLiNER (200k+ monthly downloads currently on Hugging Face), they’ve taken a major leap forward: • One single
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SirenOpt Secures Strategic Investment to Accelerate Commercialization of Its PlasmaSens Manufacturing Intelligence Platform for Factory Applications SirenOpt® is pleased to announce a strategic investment from Hitachi Ventures and InMotion Ventures to accelerate the commercialization of SirenOpt’s factory-integrated and in-line manufacturing intelligence solutions. SirenOpt will thus expand its