Participated · Seed · Jun 2026

NOX METALS positions itself as a reindustrialization and industrial supply startup that delivers manufacturing inputs to customers at accelerated speeds and lower prices. The company is led by Zane Hengsperger and recently closed an $11.5M Seed round led by Hyperion with a syndicate that includes Palmer Luckey, Y Combinator, Jared Friedman, RoboStrategy Advisors, Operator Collective, DTX, and Alumni Ventures. Following the raise, NOX METALS is hiring across Engineering, Customer, and Operations teams. The company’s public statements emphasize scaling operations to serve manufacturers more quickly and affordably. Financial metrics, revenue, user counts, and a valuation were not disclosed in the article.

Led · Series C · Jun 2026

Standard Bots designs and manufactures AI-native robot arms and industrial humanoids that are programmed via demonstration and observation instead of traditional coding. The company sells to hundreds of customers across nearly every U.S. state, including enterprises such as Sunoco, Amazon, Lockheed Martin, NASA, and the U.S. Army, and reports deployment to hundreds of American companies. Standard Bots designs most of its own parts (including actuators), assembles final products in-house, and claims a roughly 30% lower price point than legacy manufacturers. It is expanding its Glen Cove, New York facility to 70,000 square feet to scale vertically integrated, onshore production and says it is on pace to deliver 10% of new U.S. industrial robot deployments next year. The company plans to manufacture everything domestically by 2027 and serves as a policy advisor to the White House, having testified twice to Congress on a National Robotics Strategy. Co-founders are Evan Beard, David Golden, and James Cordle.

Led · Series A · Sep 2025

Dyna Robotics develops and deploys general-purpose robots driven by its DYNA-1 embodied AI foundation model, which has demonstrated a 99+% success rate during 24-hour non-stop operation. The model runs as a single set of weights that generalizes across hotels, restaurants, laundromats, gyms, and other settings, allowing new units to work “out of the box” without additional data. Within six months of launch, customer robots were operating sixteen hours per day, continuously collecting high-quality data to further refine the model. The company’s roadmap focuses on scaling production-ready robots and advancing the next generation of its foundation model on the path toward physical AGI. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs Lindon Gao and York Yang alongside former DeepMind scientist Jason Ma, the team blends commercial hardware experience with deep research expertise. Dyna raised a $23.5 million seed round in March 2025 and has now closed a $120 million Series A, bringing total funding to roughly $143.5 million. The new capital will expand its research and engineering headcount and accelerate large-scale customer deployments from its base in Redwood City, California.