• Axion Ray

  Participated · Seed · Feb 2023

  Founded in 2021, Axion Ray has built a human-in-the-loop AI platform that unifies product and customer data to surface the earliest warning signals of quality problems for manufacturers across sectors such as automotive, aerospace, med-tech, consumer electronics and data centers. The software accelerates root-cause analysis by an average of 85 %, boosts product uptime, and can cut warranty costs by millions of dollars by shifting quality management from reactive to proactive. Fortune 500 customers like Cummins, SharkNinja, Medtronic and Daikin use Axion to close feedback loops between field performance and engineering teams, thereby improving customer experience and informing next-generation product design. The company integrates naturally with Salesforce Data Cloud and Service Cloud, allowing joint customers to link product performance directly to service workflows. With its latest capital infusion, Axion plans to expand its AI capabilities, deepen Salesforce ecosystem integrations, and scale go-to-market efforts to support more U.S. manufacturers. The company is headquartered in New York and positions itself as the operating layer for America’s manufacturing revival. Although revenue figures were not disclosed, Axion emphasizes measurable ROI through reduced downtime and warranty expenses for its enterprise clients.

• Cellink

  Participated · Series D · Feb 2022

  CelLink manufactures electrically and thermally conductive flexible circuits intended to redefine automotive electrical distribution systems to make vehicles lighter, less expensive, and cleaner in both manufacturing and daily use. Founded in 2012 by Kevin Coakley and Malcolm Brown, the company is headquartered in San Carlos, CA, with a sales and engineering facility in Novi, MI. Its products have been in automotive mass production since 2019 and are on the road in hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles today. The company closed a $250M Series D to fund growth. Proceeds will finance construction of a 300,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility in Georgetown, Texas, expand engineering teams at its San Carlos HQ and Novi facility, and establish a European-based team to service international customers. CelLink plans to expand the application of its technology beyond passenger automotive into commercial vehicles, aerospace, off-highway, agriculture, military, marine, and other industrial markets.

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