Nidus announced $30 million in funding today, backed by Kleiner Perkins and Costanoa, with participation from Ludlow Ventures, SF1, Absolute Partners, Tau, and angel investors, including Chris Power, founder of Hadrian; Adrian Aoun, co-founder of Dulo, Foundational Industries and Seneca; and Nikhil Goel, Chief Commercial Officer at Archer.

Nidus is the leading developer of industrial AI, purpose-built to augment America's manufacturing base. We are on a mission to equip the factories that enable American industry with embodied intelligence that radically scales operations. Founded by a team with decades of experience across machine learning, robotics, hardware, and defense tech, Nidus brings foundation models out of the lab and onto the factory floor.