‘Speed Is a Competitive Advantage’: Forgepoint Raises $9.8M Seed

‘Speed is a competitive advantage’: Forgepoint raises $9.8M seed

American manufacturers can often make a part faster than they can get a quote back to the customer asking for it. That mismatch is the result of decades of automation reaching the shop floor, but rarely the office around it. Forgepoint is tackling that with Frank, an AI Inside Sales Rep built for manufacturing. Frank […] This story continues at The Next Web

Forgepoint Takes $9.8M To Speed Up Factory Price Quotes

Forgepoint, an American startup that builds AI software to answer price requests for manufacturers, has raised a $9.8M seed round. Primary Venture Partners, a New York venture firm focused on seed-stage investing, led the round jointly with a16z speedrun, the startup accelerator run by Andreessen Horowitz.Angel investors from OpenAI, Brex, Vercel and SoFi also joined, and the company’s website adds angels from Joby Aviation and Betterment. Forge…

Forgepoint raises $9.8M to automate custom price quotes for manufacturing firms

One of President Donald Trump’s main priorities is to revive America’s manufacturing industry in order to reduce its reliance on foreign imports and create more jobs, and a startup called Forgepoint Inc. shares the same goal after raising $9.8 million in seed funding today. The round was co-led by Primary Venture Partners and a16z Speedrun, […]

Forgepoint raises $9.8M from Primary and a16z speedrun to put AI on the factory quote desk

American manufacturers can often make a part faster than they can send back a price, according to Forgepoint.…