Forgepoint Raises $9.8M From Primary and a16z Speedrun to Give Factories an AI Sales Team
America spent money on new factories at an annual rate of $171 billion in August 2026, according to US Census Bureau data, more than double the pace of 2021, yet many of the manufacturers meant to benefit from that boom can still make a part faster than they can send a quote for it. Forgepoint, a New York startup building AI coworkers for the manufacturing back office, has raised a $9.8 million seed round to close that gap. The round was led by Primary Venture Partners and a16z speedrun, with angel investors from OpenAI, Brex, Vercel and SoFi also taking part.
Forgepoint's first product is Frank, an AI Inside Sales Rep that handles the request-for-quote to purchase-order process using each shop's own pricing rules and approval steps. The company reached seven-figure annual recurring revenue within six months of launching Frank, while hundreds of engineers, estimators and...
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