AI startup led by ex-OpenAI technical lead raises €19.4M to build worlds most advanced factories
Summary
Karlsruhe, Germany-based Daedalus, a technology company building the world’s most advanced factories using AI, announced on Thursday that it has secured $21M (approximately €19.4M) in a Series A round of funding. Founded by former OpenAI Technical Lead Jonas Schneider, Daedalus aims to build the world’s first autonomous and instantly reconfigurable factories. It also enables team members with minimal training to transform the mission-critical designs of their customers, from CAD to finished parts, with remarkable precision, reliability, and speed. Jonas Schneider, Founder and CEO of Daedalus, comments, “Imagine factories that possess the collective knowledge and expertise of all engineers and machinists who have ever worked in, and can produce the most challenging parts with superhuman reliability and 10x efficiency. Daedalus is already making that vision real by revolutionizing how we build everything from microchips to critical medical components—unleashing the potential of numerous industries with our AI-powered factories that forge bespoke parts on demand.” Currently, the company’s customers include leading semiconductor, energy, e-mobility, defense, and pharmaceutical companies, which rely on precision manufacturing for their mission-critical, high-value bespoke components.