This week on New Wave Weekly:
👉 Aris Machina lands a monster “pre-seed”
Founded by two former Northvolt leaders — including Peter Carlsson — Aris Machina wants to build the agent OS for manufacturing, unifying messy factory data into a global optimization layer. But can you really standardize manufacturing when every plant is different?
👉 AI for Manufacturing: hype cycle or real inflection?
Europe and the U.S. saw multiple rounds this week alone — Aris, Forges, Drift — as investors wake up to $8T in manufacturing inefficiency. But are we funding the next Palantir… or just fancy consulting with better branding?
👉 Is China already at “nine sigma”?
A live debate: Are Western factories actually decades behind? Some say China’s battery plants have already cracked near-zero-fault manufacturing — so what does that mean for European AI startups betting on yield optimization?
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Wave Makers:
Matthew Blain - Voyager Ventures
