What do you get when you combine a professional down-hill skiier and a software engineer from Porsche, plus seed funding from General Catalyst? A venture-backed, AI-enabled industrial manufacturing solution that learns from context, naturally. Manufacturing is a multi-trillion opportunity for the startup industry, applying the speed of software to the complexity of hardware and industrials — and is becoming an attractive market for early stage startups to tackle. Founded by Anna-Julia Storch and Leonie Freisinger, Dryft’s solution combines context-aware AI agents with mathematical optimisation to automate operational decisions, saving manufacturerers millions across every vertical imaginable. LH
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