British start -up ISIMBARD drops $ 9 million to re -manufacture critical industries

The geopolitical pressures accelerate a request in many countries and regions to restore the beach – that is, to redefine the infrastructure of the critical industry, and the return of companies, which have moved to some or all their industrial operations to the cheapest countries.

But this is easier than doing it. In the main field of accuracy manufacturing, for example, most countries in the West are not prepared to deal with the current production requirements facing companies.

This is the challenge Ismbard It aims to address. The British startup said it is planning to create a network of factories across many western sites. Alexander Fitzgerd Techcrunch CEO has told the first of them that the first of these started working in London in January, and he claims that he can already respond to high -resolution parts requests. It has not yet revealed more sites.

The goal of here is to target companies that may not plunge billions of Capex in their own factories, but it would usually contract with the manufacturer to produce them on their behalf.

“Let’s say that you are making an incomplete air system, like the drone,” said Fitzgerald. “You will send us a design for some of the main parts of that in a three -dimensional file. We will give you a width of the speed we can do, and the price. Then we do this part of any required material, and we ship it for you. Sometimes we may have the actual final assembly.” ISIMBARD will also aim to make size economies through its operations as well, with one special software layer, Masonos, and linking and operating its facilities.

This is not fundamentally different from sending this same request to a factory in Asia, but it is in line with the increasing demand for more local supply chains, flexibility and more green.

Fitzgerald believes that the old British suppliers will struggle to keep pace with the largest swing: the supply chains are fragmented, so skilled operators have retired or moved to different roles, and the factories are old – all the results achieved and increased by the supply chains that move to China and other countries. By taking advantage of software and automation, IEMBARD believes that it can provide an applicable alternative to the current case, with faster and cheaper options.

This stadium helped start the operation to secure a seed tour of 7 million pounds (about 9 million dollars) led by capital, with the participation of 201 projects, basic capital, front boxes, material projects, absolute projects on NP, as well as angels, including angels European Union The promoter Andreas Klinger and the founder of Space Forge Joshua Western.

The ISIMBARD strategy focuses on going to the market initially on space, defense and energy. Fitzgerald refused to nominate customers, but he said that the company had witnessed that most of its first traction comes from defense and rapidly growing startups. He claimed that he and his team also dragged talks with the initial numbers and government agencies.

With only 12 employees, ISIMBARD is still small. This is partly because so far, it has been self-fund Cuckoo To Giganet In 2022. But this is also because he intentionally chose a less intensity road than the US -based automatic start HadrianThat raised about $ 216.5 million in 2024 to update spare parts manufacturing.

He said: “We take the point of view that it takes a very long time, a lot of focus, and the concentration of talents in one place to build these 100,000 square feet factories.” “What we already do is a distributed factory model where we have a lot of much smaller units, but all with the same operating and automation model technology.”

This is a sign of Masonos functions, this monarchy that operates the ISAMBARD factories, which will do “everything from quotation and work appreciation to a customer, even the management of our supply chain, the automation of scheduling and priority, but also the basic manufacturing and how to codish the same machines.” “At the present time, the problem is either all of it is based on paper or it is designed in the 1970s,” he said.

Despite this modern software layer, ISEMBARD is a company that focuses on engineering. With a simple spelling disk due to the origin that is already used, its name is a reference to the British industrialist and engineer Isambard kingdom brunchIt is known for his work during the industrial revolution. But it also requires a page from his father, as he says before the startup in statement.

“When ISAMBARDMOM BRUNEL’s father saw British soldiers returning from the peninsula war with feet due to the suppliers of the poor shoes,” he established a shoe factory. ”

This reference aims to reflect the spirit and ambition of ISEMBARD, but it is not a coincidence that it is related to soldiers. None of the Fitzgerald family was in the army, but he had “always had a feeling of patriotism” and has been a reserve holder since 2016. This is the inspiring ISEMBARD, but the company’s ambitions exceeded the United Kingdom and Europe, which is likely to reach North America, Australia and New Zealand. “We want to help solve the West,” he said.