Podium Automation Raises $18M Series A for Control Panels

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Podium Automation, a Brooklyn, New York manufacturer rethinking how industrial control panels are designed and built, has raised $18 million in a Series A round. The financing was led by Construct Capital, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz, Transition Ventures, Sunflower Capital, and Banter Capital. The round pushes Podium’s total funding past $23 million.

Founded in 2024, Podium is one of the fastest UL 508A control panel manufacturers in the US. It serves companies that need high-quality panels delivered on a tight timeline, a group that ranges from scale-ups to Fortune 500 manufacturers. The company’s edge comes from a software layer that brings speed, quality, and transparency to the process, tracking a job from the first quote all the way to final delivery.

The numbers tell the story of what that software does. Using its own design and fabrication tools, the company has cut control panel lead times from 12 weeks to under four. In an industry where delays can stall an entire production line, that kind of turnaround is a real selling point.

The new capital will fund a rapid scale-up of manufacturing capacity to keep pace with rising demand for quick-turn control panels. Podium’s backers include Construct Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Transition Ventures, Sunflower Capital, Banter Capital, and SV Angel.

As part of the financing, Dayna Grayson, co-founder and managing partner at Construct Capital, is joining Podium’s board of directors. With fresh funding and a plan to expand capacity, the Brooklyn company is setting out to modernize a corner of industrial manufacturing that has long run on slower, more manual processes.