Isembard has raised a £7m seed round, led by Notion Capital, which is backed by the UK Government’s National Security Strategic Investment Fund (NSSIF) and the German Federal Government. Follower funds include 201 Ventures, Basis Capital, Forward Fund, Material Ventures, Neverlift Ventures, and NP-Hard Ventures. Angel investors in the round include Andreas Klinger (Product Hunt), Charlie Delingpole (ComplyAdvantage), Joshua Western (SpaceForge) and Salar al Khafaji (Monumental).
This is a great roster of investors, underlining both the importance of the problem they are addressing, and the vision of their solution.
Resilience Media covered the launch of Isembard back in February, which aligned with how urgent we think industrialisation is for defence. We love their vision to use technology to prevent the erosion of small manufacturing across the UK and the West to protect critical precision manufacturing capability. We’re thrilled that they have raised a seed round only a few months since everyone in the defence scene in London crammed into their first industrial unit in London for their launch.
With the new funding, Isembard will expand its first factory, grow its engineering team, and scale its technology platform to enable defence, aerospace, energy, and other critical industries to access faster, more reliable, and more cost-effective production. Isembard is already working with fast-growing European defence and autonomy startups to deliver high-precision products faster.
Alexander Fitzgerald, Founder and CEO of Isembard said: “Manufacturing is the backbone of economic prosperity, national security and our collective purpose as humanity. Yet our industrial base is dying. We’re building a new model, one that decentralises production while driving efficiency through software and automation. With support from top investors who share our vision, we are forging industrial acceleration for the West.”
Jos White, General Partner at Notion Capital, added: “Isembard is tackling one of the hardest, most ambitious challenges today, bringing software-driven transformation to precision manufacturing. Alex and his team have the vision, technical expertise, and relentless execution needed to redefine this space. We’re excited to back them as they build a new industrial powerhouse.”
Isembard is making manufacturing faster, cheaper and greener. They manufacture high-precision parts, enabled by their proprietary software, MasonOS. They serve customers in aerospace, defence and wider critical industries. The team brings together backgrounds in the military, government, and large enterprise and they share a vision to forge industrial acceleration to support both resilience and economic growth.
This is a really good step forward for the UK and Europe’s industrial manufacturing base, which is fundamental to enable allied countries to maintain sovereign manufacturing capabilities, and to switch rapidly to defence production when needed.
