Foundry Robotics raised $100 million in an oversubscribed Series A to expand its autonomous manufacturing platform and build a 130,000-square-foot factory in Emeryville, California. The round was led by Marlinspike Partners. Khosla Ventures and Red Glass Ventures participated alongside new investors SE Ventures, Wing VC, and Axiom Ventures and existing investors Hanabi and Zero Shot Fund.
Foundry builds and operates autonomous factories for complex product assembly, combining AI-powered robotic systems with experienced manufacturing personnel.
The company plans to use the financing to build out its Emeryville factory, accelerate deployment of AI models in production environments, and expand its robotics research, engineering, and factory operations teams.
Foundry has increased its manufacturing footprint approximately twentyfold with the new 130,000-square-foot facility.
Its target applications include drones, autonomous vehicle subassemblies, wire harnesses, underwater vehicles, telecommunications and data center infrastructure, ground robots, rugged computers, robotic compute systems, satellites, and other complex electro-mechanical products.
Foundry operates under a manufacturing-as-a-service model, owning and operating manufacturing facilities rather than requiring customers to build dedicated production lines.
Its robotic assembly cells are designed to switch between products and improve as it collects more production data.
FoundryOS serves as an agentic system connecting robotics, factory operations, and cloud infrastructure.
The company was co-founded by CEO Adarsh Kulkarni and Emmanuel Lamacchia, the former program manager responsible for Tesla’s Model Y manufacturing program.
Kulkarni previously worked at Ghost Robotics and later served as Scale AI’s inaugural Head of Robotics.
Foundry said its objective is to provide flexible U.S. assembly capacity capable of responding more quickly to changing defense and industrial manufacturing demand.
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“Our mission is to revitalize U.S. manufacturing and create more capacity to build and scale critical product assembly.”
Adarsh Kulkarni, Founder And CEO Of Foundry Robotics
“Production capacity is a national constraint on getting unmanned systems to the fleet. Foundry’s approach to autonomous assembly is exactly the kind of capability the defense industrial base needs right now.”
Duane Fotheringham, President Of HII Unmanned Systems
“Defense and industrial equipment manufacturers urgently need more domestic assembly capacity, and Foundry is delivering.”
Mislav Tolusic, Managing Partner At Marlinspike
