What it sells
A robotics intelligence system for metal fabrication
Business model breakdown
Buyer: who owns the budget?
UnverifiedOperations or procurement lead at a fabricator or hardware company buying welding, engraving or scanning as a service (inferred).
Trigger: what makes them buy now?
Structural labor gap in US manufacturing (about 415,000 unfilled jobs) and need for surge welding capacity within days.
Workflow: what inputs become what output?
Customer sends part spec, Forge runs welding/engraving/scanning in its San Francisco facility on its autonomous modules and ships finished, inspected parts with a quality report.
Economics: what it saves and how it charges
Today a contract-manufacturing service priced per part; later hardware sales of the shipping-container-sized Welding Module (waitlist). Claims 99% projected first-pass yield and setup within a week.
Distribution: how it reaches customers
Direct sales: request a quote, talk to sales, waitlist; no channel mentioned.
Funding history and coverage
| Round date | Stage | Amount | Investors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Y Combinator Fall 2025 | — | Y Combinator | ycombinator.com |
Profiles summarize public reporting and company websites. Business-model notes are MaxBC's reading of that material, not confirmed facts; unknowns are left blank rather than guessed. Updated 2026-10-12.