CircuitHub, a company focused on streamlining electronics production, has raised $28 million to accelerate hardware development and manufacturing workflows.
The funding was led by Plural and will accelerate the expansion of CircuitHub’s automated factories across the US and Europe, grow its engineering team and extend the platform into full-service electronics manufacturing.
Founded by CEO Andrew Seddon, CircuitHub has built the first-of-its-kind automated electronics manufacturing system that turns design files into printed, production-ready circuit boards in days.
Its R&D roots are in Cambridge, UK, with a growing team across London forming the foundation for a broader European manufacturing footprint.
CircuitHub launched its first facility in Massachusetts to be close to early customers.
The case for sovereign electronics manufacturing infrastructure
Around 95 per cent of electronics projects today involve fewer than 10,000 units, yet the industry remains optimised almost entirely for mass production. For most hardware teams, manufacturing still looks as it did in the 1990s – manual assembly, supply chain bottlenecks and rising labour costs, while iteration cycles stretch into months.
With much of the world’s manufacturing overseas, critical supply chains are heavily concentrated in China, creating dependencies that are increasingly exposed to geopolitical tensions and disruption.
The US alone has lost more than 85 per cent of its share of the global PCB market to lower-cost manufacturers overseas. In response, US and European governments and companies are rebuilding domestic manufacturing capacity, driven by geopolitical tensions, fragile supply chains and the need for technological sovereignty.
Bringing semiconductor-style automation to electronics manufacturing
Inspired by semiconductor fabs, among the most automated systems in the world, engineers building self-driving cars, satellites and more can upload designs and order circuit boards in seconds, via CircuitHub’s online platform.
From here, the company uses automated robotics, computer vision and AI to assemble these designs at its first 5,000-square-foot factory, the Grid, before shipping them to teams around the world.
By automating large parts of the production process and monitoring quality via a small on-site team, CircuitHub’s Grid can produce a single prototype or batches of 10,000 units across dozens of different designs simultaneously.
This not only shrinks production cycles from months to days, which helps fuel innovation, but it finally makes high-mix manufacturing, where different designs are produced in small batches, economically viable in a world still built for mass production.
Andrew Seddon, founder and CEO of CircuitHub, said:
“Today, hardware companies face a tough choice: either spin up their own vertically integrated manufacturing from scratch, or rely on a legacy Western supply chain that's been decaying for years. CircuitHub is the alternative: providing remote access to a cutting-edge factory through your browser or your AI agent.
Just as software companies share cloud compute, hardware companies can now share our Grid.”
The fastest-growing electronics manufacturer in the US
Since launching its first facility in Massachusetts, CircuitHub has delivered 2 million + boards and placed 133 million + parts, serving 20,000 engineers across some of the world’s biggest and most innovative hardware teams.
It has become the fastest-growing electronics manufacturer in the US and, over time, CircuitHub aims to make its factories increasingly modular, allowing new capacity to be deployed wherever needed.
The company plans to expand its Grid model across the US and Europe, scaling high-speed, on-demand manufacturing to reduce reliance on distant supply chains and strengthen domestic control over critical technologies.
According to Sten Tamkivi, Partner at Plural,the CircuitHub team are changing the unit economics of the entire industry.
"As robotics, AI and advanced hardware accelerate, their combination of automation, software and data is making electronics manufacturing as fast, flexible, and accessible as writing code.
This is also about resilience and sovereignty, ensuring that Europe and the US can design, build and iterate on critical technologies locally. It’s the kind of infrastructure shift that creates billion-dollar outcomes and will supercharge progress across physical AI, from robotics to space, energy and defence.”
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