industrial sector

Augury raises $73M on a $1B+ valuation for AI to detect malfunctions in factory machines

As companies like Nvidia and SoftBank make industrial robotics into a key focus for future R&D, a startup has raised funding today for another facet of how AI is being used on the factory room floor. Augury, which develops AI-based hardware that measures vibrations, sound, temperature and other factors to understand how machines are working […]

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Blue Bear Capital lands $160M to back AI founders in climate, energy, and industry

It’s a truism in the climate tech world that hardware is paramount. After all, you can’t curb carbon pollution without fixing cement, steel, hydrogen, and more. But as with anything today, hardware is just part of the equation. “In almost every case, hardware is going to be developed with software in mind,” Vaughn Blake, partner

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