Podium Automation Secures $18 Million to Overhaul Industrial Control
Industrial control panels, the essential nervous system of modern production, have long been plagued by 12-week lead times and reliance on manual labor. Brooklyn-based Podium Automation is now targeting this bottleneck, closing an $18 million Series A round to scale a software-driven approach that slashes delivery times to under four weeks.
The funding round, led by Construct Capital with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Transition Ventures, Sunflower Capital, and Banter Capital, brings Podium’s total capital raised to over $23 million. Dayna Grayson, co-founder of Construct Capital, will join the company’s board as part of the deal. The investment will fuel an aggressive expansion of manufacturing capacity and engineering headcount to meet demand from both emerging scale-ups and established Fortune 500 manufacturers.
Podium’s model replaces traditional hand-drawn schematics and veteran-dependent fabrication with a proprietary software layer. By automating the selection of electrical components and integrating customer requirements directly with shop-floor instructions, the company ensures that every unit is UL 508A certified and validated before shipping. Co-founders Jamie Niu Serota and Jacob Buser designed the platform to treat design-for-manufacturability as a software problem, effectively insulating customers from the volatility of upstream supply chains.
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