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Isembard has raised $50m in Series A funding led by Union Square Ventures. We will open 25 factories this year in the United Kingdom and United States, expand our engineering teams and launch into Germany, France and Ukraine. Tamarack Global and IQ Capital joined the round alongside existing investors Notion Capital and CIV. Angels include Alex Bouaziz (Deel), Andrei Danescu (Dexory) and Matt Briers (Wise). Manufacturing is the rate limiter on our collective security, prosperity and sense of purpose as nations. Isembard is the manufacturer for aerospace, defence and robotics customers. We operate both owned and grow franchisee factories powered by our proprietary software and AI platform, MasonOS. Our mission is to forge industrial acceleration. If you are doom scrolling but would rather solve the hardest problems of our time, get in touch. Roles we are hiring for are in the comments below. Saying that, we prefer to craft roles around the individual rather than craft individuals to roles. And if you're interested, the oil painting in the image is The Iron Rolling Mill (also known as Modern Cyclopes) by Adolph Menzel, which depicts engineers inside a 19th-century German rolling mill.

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Efficient Computer has raised a $60M Series A led by Triatomic Capital, with participation from Eclipse, Union Square Ventures, Overlap Holdings, BoxGroup, RTX, Toyota Ventures, and Overmatch Ventures—bringing total funding to $76M. Energy—not compute—is now the defining constraint as AI and advanced software move into the physical world. This round helps us accelerate our roadmap and expand our engineering and developer teams. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gjzTqtnz #SeriesA #EdgeAI #StartupNews #TechNews #SeriesAFunding

Big news from the Forerunner team today! We’re excited to announce $39M in total funding - including a $26.3M Series B led by Wellington Management and a Series A led by Union Square Ventures - to build the modern operating system for local government. Local governments are the heart of our communities, yet many are still forced to manage critical infrastructure and community risks using fragmented, legacy systems. At Forerunner, we’re changing that. We are expanding our AI-powered platform to help government agencies across the country automate workflows, manage infrastructure, and scale resilience. A huge thank you to our partners at Wellington Management, Union Square Ventures, Gutter Capital, SE Ventures, Bright Ventures, and Citi Impact Fund for believing in a future where every community has the tools to thrive. Read the exclusive by Katie Fehrenbacher in Axios: https://lnkd.in/eynCpsKH