{"id":462997,"date":"2026-03-07T18:09:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462997\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T18:09:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T18:09:44","slug":"founders-fund-leads-80-million-bet-on-manufacturing-unicorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/462997\/","title":{"rendered":"Founders Fund Leads $80 Million Bet on Manufacturing Unicorn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Founders Fund is leading an $80 million investment in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/2412632D:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Nominal Inc.<\/a>, a startup aiming to make manufacturing more efficient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The deal values the startup at $1 billion, making Nominal a unicorn, and is an extension of the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-06-12\/sequoia-leads-75-million-deal-for-defense-industrial-startup-nominal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Series B funding round<\/a> last summer, led by Sequoia Capital. Investors including Sequoia, Lux Capital and General Catalyst also participated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Founders Fund is leading an $80 million investment in Nominal Inc., a startup aiming to make manufacturing more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6299,84,166193,2339,4203,80,873,79285,166192,4863,1208,86,166194,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-462997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-automotive","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-cameron-mccord","11":"tag-chief-executive-officer","12":"tag-entrepreneurship","13":"tag-government","14":"tag-hardware","15":"tag-lux-capital","16":"tag-nominal-inc","17":"tag-software","18":"tag-startups","19":"tag-technology","20":"tag-trae-stephens","21":"tag-uk","22":"tag-united-kingdom","23":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}