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SF intelligent manufacturing with Microfactory robotic cells and Brightware AI software; $400M+ total ($126M BlackRock/NVIDIA/Microsoft Series C Jun 2024) from Autodesk co-CEO co-founder competing with Covariant for AI-driven flexible factory automation.
Bright Machines is a San Francisco, California-based intelligent manufacturing automation company — backed with $400+ million in total funding including a $126 million Series C in June 2024 led by BlackRock with NVIDIA, Microsoft, Eclipse Ventures, and Jabil — providing discrete manufacturers in electronics, industrial, and consumer goods sectors with a full-stack automation solution combining Microfactory robotic cells (reconfigurable hardware for assembly, inspection, and testing) with the Brightware intelligent software platform that uses AI and computer vision to enable flexible, self-adapting automation lines that can be reconfigured between products within hours rather than weeks. Founded in 2018 by co-CEO Amar Hanspal (former co-CEO and Chief Product Officer at Autodesk, the $36 billion design software company) and other founding team members with Autodesk and manufacturing automation backgrounds.
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