Squint Raises $40M Series B, Expanding Revolutionary Agentic Manufacturing to New Heights
A Milestone Moment: $40M to Accelerate Human Potential with AI
Today, Squint is thrilled to announce the successful close of our $40 million Series B funding round, bringing our total funding to over $59 million. This round was led by The Westly Group and TCV, with repeat investors Sequoia Capital and Menlo Ventures.
Right now, tens of thousands of operators across hundreds of Fortune 500 factories depend on Squint to improve quality, reduce downtime, and manufacture everything from tires to tortilla chips.
With this new investment, we will:
- Advance Squint’s AI capabilities to continue leading the Agentic Manufacturing revolution
- Scale operations to meet surging customer demand, while collaborating with industry leaders to deepen implementation further into manufacturing processes
- Expand to new markets like energy, logistics, and field services
For operators in the heat of the factory floor, Squint already feels like magic. With this round of funding, we’re doubling down — empowering a broader range of frontline teams with the world’s most advanced Manufacturing Intelligence Platform.
Why It Matters
This is more than a funding announcement. It’s a signal that a new category of industrial software is not only possible, but urgently needed — one built for the people who power the economy. While AI innovations have exploded across other industries, the factory floor has been left behind. Squint is changing that.
The manufacturing sector accounts for more than 10% of U.S. GDP and employs more than 13 million Americans — and, a renewed focus on reshoring American manufacturing means that the sector is growing at its fastest rate in decades. Yet, many teams still rely on printed manuals, aging systems, or informal, on-the-job instruction. These tools haven’t kept pace with the complexity of the floor. On top of that, longtime manufacturing workers are retiring, with millions of manufacturing jobs going unfilled. This loss of tribal knowledge leads to non-standard work and mistakes that increase downtime and scrap when margins are already tight.
Squint tackles this problem head-on and delivers AI in a context-aware, easy to use, enterprise-ready package that increases the capability of every operator instantly.
What Makes Squint Different
Prior to Squint, there was no system that captured the intersection of machines, processes, and people. Squint lies at the heart of that mix. Operators can collaborate with each other seamlessly, supervisors can track operator progress across the facility, and executives can see a new type of data at scale to inform their continuous improvement, boost margins, and drive their company into the future.
Squint helps manufacturers capture tribal knowledge, standardize work, and improve frontline execution — using a mobile-first combination of AI and AR that is built for real industrial environments, not retrofitted from office software.
What We’re Building Next
Expand Agentic Manufacturing Capabilities: This funding will allow us to take what we call “Agentic Manufacturing” to the next level — building out Squint’s fundamental AI capabilities as we continue to refine the world’s leading Manufacturing Intelligence Platform. We believe from 2025 and beyond, every operator will partner with AI to make decisions and solve problems. Squint's AI Agents are supercharging all facets of manufacturing: from automating root cause analysis to compliance status and documentation.
Meet Surging Demand, Deepen Implementation, Scale to New Markets: This funding also positions us to keep pace with the rapid growth we’re seeing from customers who are scaling Squint across plants, teams, and geographies. For instance, right now, one Fortune 50 customer is scaling to more than 70 additional sites, while a Fortune Global 500 customer is expanding to 10,000 field techs. Additionally, this investment will allow Squint to access new markets — including energy, logistics, and field services
This is Just the Beginning
We’re doing more than just building software, we’re building the future of manufacturing. Squint is harnessing the power of AI to accelerate human potential and deliver efficiency where it matters most. This isn’t just innovation — it’s the new industrial revolution.
To power the revolution, we're growing as quickly as we can and hiring in every department. This spring we moved into a new office in San Francisco, giving us the space to collaborate as we take on this next chapter.
To close, we want to take a moment to say thank you. To our customers who believe in the power of Squint. To the Squinterinos who made this happen. To the factory operators who trust our platform every day. And to our investors who believe in the revolutionary power of Agentic Manufacturing. We could not have done this without you.
Let’s put human potential at the center of the AI revolution.