CircuitHub has raised $28m (£21m) to expand its network of automated, software-driven factories for on-demand electronics manufacturing.
CircuitHub’s Grid platform enables production from one to 10,000 units with a standard three-day turnaround and automated quoting. The company also helps hardware teams design, test and scale products at software speed.
Engineers building self-driving cars, satellites and more can upload designs and order circuit boards via CircuitHub’s online platform. From here, the company uses automated robotics, computer vision and AI to assemble these designs at its first 5,000-square-foot factory, the Grid, before shipping them to teams around the world.
The new funding round was led by Plural and will accelerate the expansion of CircuitHub’s automated factories across Europe and the US, grow its engineering team and extend the platform into full-service electronics manufacturing.
“Today, hardware companies face a tough choice: either spin up their own vertically integrated manufacturing from scratch, or rely on a legacy Western supply chain that’s been decaying for years,” says Andrew Seddon, founder and CEO of CircuitHub.
“CircuitHub is the alternative: providing remote access to a cutting-edge factory through your browser or your AI agent. Just as software companies share cloud computing, hardware companies can now share our Grid.”
