CircuitHub, an electronics manufacturing startup, has raised £21 million from Plural. CircuitHub builds automated electronics manufacturing systems that turn design files into printed, production-ready circuit boards in days for hardware teams working across sectors including self-driving cars and satellites.
Founded by CEO Andrew Seddon, CircuitHub has built an automated electronics manufacturing system that allows engineers to upload designs and order circuit boards through an online platform. Automated robotics, computer vision and AI are then used to assemble the designs at CircuitHub’s 5,000-square-foot factory, known as the Grid, before products are shipped globally. By automating production and quality monitoring, the Grid can produce single prototypes or batches of 10,000 units across multiple designs simultaneously, helping reduce production cycles from months to days.
The funding will support the expansion of CircuitHub’s automated factories across Europe and the US, growth of its engineering team and the extension of the platform into full-service electronics manufacturing. CircuitHub plans to expand its Grid model across the US and Europe as governments and businesses seek to rebuild domestic manufacturing capacity and reduce reliance on overseas supply chains.
Around 95% of electronics projects involve fewer than 10,000 units, while the industry remains largely optimised for mass production. CircuitHub states that electronics manufacturing services are on track to become a $1 trillion market. Since launching its first production facility in Massachusetts, CircuitHub has delivered more than 2 million boards, placed more than 133 million parts and served 20,000 engineers globally.
Today, hardware companies face a tough choice: either spin up their own vertically integrated manufacturing from scratch, or rely on a legacy Western supply chain that's been decaying for years. CircuitHub is the alternative: providing remote access to a cutting-edge factory through your browser or your AI agent. Just as software companies share cloud compute, hardware companies can now share our Grid.
What CircuitHub is doing is fundamental. Andrew and the world-class CircuitHub team are changing the unit economics of the entire industry. As robotics, AI and advanced hardware accelerate, their combination of automation, software and data is making electronics manufacturing as fast, flexible, and accessible as writing code. This is also about resilience and sovereignty, ensuring that Europe and the US can design, build and iterate on critical technologies locally. It’s the kind of infrastructure shift that creates billion-dollar outcomes and will supercharge progress across physical AI, from robotics to space, energy and defence.
