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Ultra raises $50M to lease packing robots to warehouses by the month
Brooklyn-based Ultra closed a $50M Series A led by Framework Ventures, bringing total funding to $62M. It installs its OP1 packing robots at warehouses and third-party logistics sites for an upfront integration fee plus a monthly service fee, rather than a big capital purchase. The company says its robots have packed over 500,000 orders, and it relies on Physical Intelligence for the AI models that run them.
Read the story →So whatRobots-as-a-service turns automation into an operating expense you can pilot.
Scimplify raises $25M to add US capacity for specialty and critical-materials chemistry
Scimplify, a Bengaluru-based specialty chemicals and advanced materials maker, raised $25M in a round led by Hitachi Ventures, with Henkel and Teknor Apex joining. Total funding is now about $80M. It plans US research and processing capacity for areas with thin domestic supply, such as rare-earth and critical-metal purification and high-purity semiconductor and battery chemicals, and will keep building its in-house AI platform for taking chemistry from lab to production.
Read the story →So whatNew suppliers for hard-to-source chemistries are forming, often backed by the customers who need them.
Broadcom is lining up $30–50B+ to finance OpenAI's custom chips
The WSJ reported that Broadcom is working to arrange more than $50B in financing for the custom AI chips it is co-developing with OpenAI, with Apollo and Blackstone in talks. Bloomberg put the figure nearer $30B and called the talks early. Either way, private credit is now funding chip supply directly.
Read the story →So whatWhen suppliers finance their biggest customers' purchases, allocation follows the money for years.
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