CircuitHub raises $28M to scale electronics production in days rather than months
CircuitHub Inc., a company building automated manufacturing and assembly systems for electronics hardware at scale that supports industries such as self-driving cars and satellites, today announced it raised $28M led by Plural.
Andrew Seddon, CircuitHub’s chief executive, founded the company on the premise that the electronics manufacturing market could be disrupted by the same hardware innovations that led to its creation: automation.
He led the groundbreaking of the company’s first facility inspired by semiconductor fabs in Massachusetts, where robotics and artificial intelligence cut, prime and assemble printed circuit boards. The factory, known colloquially as the Grid, sits in a 5,000-square-foot space and uses computer vision and AI to build electronics and ship them to teams around the world.
By automating large parts of the manufacturing process, the Grid can produce and prototype a single prototype or up to 10,000 units across dozens of different designs simultaneously. It allows the company to cut production time from weeks to days and makes mass production in smaller quantities economically viable.
