Geographical political pressure is accelerating demand for rehabilitation in many countries and regions – that is, to restore the industry’s main infrastructure, and bring back the business, which has moved or outsourced some or all industrial operations in more cheap countries.
But it’s much easier than working. In the key sector of precision manufacturing, for example, most countries in the West have not been set up to handle existing production requirements that are facing business.
This is a challenge Isembard The purpose is to address. The British Startup said it plans to build a network of factories in several western locations. CEO Alexander Fitz Jerlfud told Tech Crunch that the first of them began working in London in January, claiming that it could already respond to requests for high -healthy parts. It has not yet revealed more places.
The purpose here is to target companies that may not sink billions of capacites in their factories, but usually contract with a manufacturer to prepare them.
“We say that you are creating an unintentional aerial system like a drone,” said Fatez Jerlde. “You’ll send us a design for some important parts for it in the 3D file. We will give you a reference as to how fast we can work in it, and the price. And then we send the machines to you from whatever content requires it. And sometimes we will probably make the original final assembly. “The purpose of IIBID will be the purpose of the scale’s economy in our own operations, with the same proprietary software layer, Mesonos, integrating and strengthening our facilities.
This is not different from sending the same application to a factory in Asia, but it is more local, flexible and in accordance with the increasing demand for green supply chains.
Fitz Jerlde believes that the British heritage suppliers will struggle to maintain harmony with major racering swings: the supply chain is scattered, skilled operators have retired or moved to different roles, and the factories are old -fashioned and all other results have been transmitted to China. Taking advantage of software and automation, IIs believes it can offer a viable alternative to the current situation, while also offering options that are faster and cheaper.
This pitch helped Startup Million 7 million seed round (about $ 9 million), along with 201 Ventures, Base Capital, Forward Fund, Material Ventures, Neur Lift Ventures and NP Hard Ventures, as well as angels as well as angels. I inci Promoter Andreas Kulnagar and Space Forge founder Joshua Western.
The strategy going to the IDA market is initially focused on aerospace, defense and energy. Fitz Jerlfud refused to name the clients, but said the company saw that most of its initial traction came from defense and rapid starting. He claimed that he and his team were also talking to prime and government agencies.
With just 12 employees, IIBD is still small. It is a part of this, because so far, it was provided by Fitz Jerald’s first exit income-he sold his former company. Cocoa To the gagnet In 2022. But the reason is that it deliberately chose a lower capitalist way than the US -based automation startup HeadmanWhich raised $ 216.5 million in 2024 to modernize the manufacture of parts.
“We are careful that there is too long, too long, very high capacity, and too much concentration of capabilities to build these large, 100,000 square feet factories,” he said. “What we are actually doing is a distributed factory model where we have many small units, but all are with the same operating model technology and automation.”
“This is a reference to the functionality of Mesonos, which gives strength to the plants of Osambard, which will” manage our own supply chain, to manage our own supply chain, to manage the automated schedules and priority, but to codes the basic manufacturing and how to do your own machines. ” “At this time, the problem is either paper -based or all the software is made in the 70s,” he said.
Despite this advanced software layer, IID is a highly engineering company. With the slightest adaptation of spelling due to the original pre -used origin, its name is a curse for British manufacturer and engineer Asambird Kingdom BrunnelKnown for his work during the Industrial Revolution. But it also takes a page from her father, as her startup has told Manufacture.
“When the father of Asambird Kingdom Brunnel came back from the Peninsula, returning from the peninsula, returning to the shoe suppliers,” the story said, “He founded the shoe factory.”
The purpose of this reference is to reflect the spirit and ambitions of IIs, but it is not an accident that it is about soldiers. Fitz Jerusaleud had no family in the army, but he had “always felt patriotism” and he has been a reserved since 2016. This affected IIs, but the company’s ambitions are ahead of the UK and Europe, which are likely to be North America, Australia and New Zealand. “We want to help the West to help solve the industrial,” he said.