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Lily Mae Lazarus

Forget robots on assembly lines. Foundational Industries wants AI to run the entire factory

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Jonathan Winer wears a white button down and blue sweater and smiles. (Credit: Courtesy of Foundational Industries)

Jonathan Winer thinks the U.S. is fighting the wrong manufacturing war.

His startup, Foundational Industries, just raised a $25 million seed round, Fortune learned exclusively, to build factories where AI runs the whole operation rather than bolting automation onto an old assembly line. The round was led by BoxGroup and Zigg Ventures, with Abstract Ventures, Adverb Ventures, Buckley Ventures, and Offline Ventures participating.

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