Jiga, the AI-powered sourcing platform trusted by NASA, Siemens, and hundreds of companies across aerospace, defense, and robotics, has announced a $12 million Series A funding round. Aleph led the round, with additional participation from Symbol its Seed round leader and Y Combinator.
Today, hardware teams often operate at a dramatically slower pace than their software counterparts. For instance, a software engineer can deploy an autonomous agent within hours, yet a mechanical engineer may spend weeks waiting for a quote on a custom robot chassis. This lag is not a rare exception but a deeply rooted industry challenge. While AI accelerates software development, hardware sourcing remains stuck in outdated systems, creating bottlenecks that limit innovation.
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However, Jiga has stepped in to transform this landscape. The founding team Adar Hay (CEO), Yonatan Wolowelsky (CTO), and Assaf Geuz (COO) built an AI-native manufacturing platform that unifies the entire sourcing workflow. Engineers simply upload drawings and specifications, get matched to verified manufacturers, and place orders seamlessly through Jiga, which acts as the vendor of record.
Moreover, Jiga’s AI automates the most time-consuming aspects of hardware sourcing. It pulls requirements directly from drawings, analyzes communication to identify context, flags potential risks, and organizes all specifications, supplier conversations, and documentation into a structured, transparent interface. This allows engineers to retain control over critical decisions, while Jiga handles the administrative load.
As a result, sourcing timelines that once took weeks now shrink to hours and at significantly lower cost.
This advancement comes at a crucial moment for the U.S. manufacturing ecosystem. As the country moves toward reindustrialization, the demand for advanced hardware is skyrocketing. Robotics alone is expected to grow from $90 billion in 2024 to $206 billion by 2030, while the global space economy is projected to approach $2 trillion by 2040. Yet the supply chain supporting these sectors remains plagued by disorganized technical documents, scattered communications, and incompatible quoting formats.
Highlighting this gap, CEO Adar Hay stated, “Hardware can’t keep pace if engineers chase quotes instead of design, and supply chain teams are buried in spreadsheets instead of strategy. We’re eliminating the administrative burden so teams can move at AI-era speed. The capital will allow us to support the exponentially growing market demand.”
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Already, leading organizations across aerospace, defense, and robotics rely on Jiga to power their procurement pipelines, with the platform processing thousands of RFQs every month.
Echoing this momentum, Eden Shochat, Equal Partner at Aleph, added, “Hardware moves only as fast as its supply chain. For decades, custom parts procurement couldn’t be automated buried in PDFs, emails, spreadsheets. Jiga is finally cracking it. What took three weeks now takes three hours. This is the hardware manufacturing pipeline rebuilt for software speeds.”
Although Jiga is already profitable, the new funding will help the company keep up with surging demand. The capital will be used to strengthen premium production capabilities, expand AI-driven quality assurance for mission-critical components, and scale enterprise infrastructure to support larger and more diverse manufacturing operations.
With this investment, Jiga is positioning itself as the backbone of next-generation hardware development bringing the speed of AI to the world of physical manufacturing.
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