CircuitHub has raised fresh capital to push electronics manufacturing into a new, software-like era. The company has closed a $28 million Series A round to scale its automated factories and accelerate production timelines from months to just days.
The round is led by Plural, the operator-led VC firm co-founded by European tech heavyweights Taavet Hinrikus, Sten Tamkivi, Ian Hogarth and Khaled Helioui, all of whom have deep experience scaling category-defining platforms.
Founded in 2011 by Andrew Seddon, Rehno Lindeque and Jon Friedman, CircuitHub is building what it describes as the world’s first hyper-scale, high-mix electronics manufacturing system.
Its first production facility sits in Massachusetts, close to a large base of U.S. hardware customers, while the company’s R&D roots remain in Cambridge, UK, with a growing London team and plans to roll out a wider European manufacturing footprint.
At its core, CircuitHub is attacking one of hardware’s most persistent pain points – slow, fragmented and labor-intensive production. Engineers upload design files to the company’s online platform, configure orders on the fly and receive production-ready PCBs in days instead of the traditional weeks or months.
CEO Andrew Seddon frames the choice starkly, either hardware teams build vertically integrated manufacturing from scratch or rely on a Western supply chain that has been “decaying for years.”
CircuitHub offers a third path, remote access to a state-of-the-art factory via browser or AI agent, in the same way software companies tap into shared cloud compute.
The engine behind that promise is the “Grid,” a 5,000?square?foot automated factory module that fuses robotics, computer vision and proprietary software into a single system.
Each Grid can handle everything from a single prototype to runs of up to 10,000 units across multiple designs at once, making high-mix, low-volume manufacturing commercially viable in a sector still largely tuned for rigid, high-volume mass production.
That positioning matters in the broader EMS landscape. CircuitHub estimates that roughly 95% of electronics projects ship fewer than 10,000 units, yet most legacy factories are optimised for large, often offshore, mass production especially in China.
By combining local, automated capacity with software?defined workflows, CircuitHub is going after customers frustrated by rising labour costs, supply-chain latency and growing geopolitical risk in traditional manufacturing hubs.
Strategically, the company is casting itself as a nimble alternative to global manufacturing giants such as Jabil, Flex and Foxconn, firms that excel at extreme-scale output but struggle to profitably serve quick-turn, small-batch jobs.
In the automated, low[volume software-to-hardware niche, CircuitHub goes head-to-head with platforms like MacroFab, while the struggles of earlier player Tempo Automation acquired in 2022 and later relegated to OTC penny-stock status have effectively thinned the competitive field.
That opens a sizable window for CircuitHub to define the modern agile manufacturing category. Since launch, the company has shipped more than 2 million boards and placed over 133 million components for around 20,000 engineers building everything from satellites to autonomous systems.
With this new funding, CircuitHub plans to aggressively scale its modular Grid factories across Europe and North America, dropping manufacturing capacity directly into the regions where engineers are designing next-generation hardware.
Plural partner Sten Tamkivi argues that this isn’t just about convenience it is about changing the economics and sovereignty of electronics manufacturing. As robotics, AI and advanced hardware continue to grow, he says CircuitHub’s blend of automation, software and data is making hardware production “as fast and flexible as writing code,” while strengthening Europe’s and the US’s ability to build critical technologies at home across robotics, space, energy and defence.
