Build where
industry lives.

Created by a16z American Dynamism and Atlas Holdings.

Foundry brings brings a small number of exceptional technical founders onto the platform and deploys them into some of the largest industrial businesses via Atlas’ portfolio. Working directly with leadership teams, engineers, operators, and process owners, they begin with a consequential operating problem, and build solutions in the industrial environment. Foundry believes that effective solutions must be designed on the factory floor.

When a founder, problem, and solution meet the bar for an enduring independent company, Atlas and a16z can support its creation and financing, with the founder at the helm. There is enormous value to be unlocked in the industrial world by AI, and much of this value will be built from within the industrial environments that already exist.