SAEKI Gathers $6.7M for Large-Scale Manufacturing Plan

Zurich, Switzerland-based manufacturing automation business SAEKI has announced a $6.7 million funding round for its novel approach to digital manufacturing. The seed round was led by Lightbird with reported participation from Founderful, 2100VC, Danobat, and multiple business angels.

SAEKI combines large-scale additive manufacturing with precision CNC machining in a unified production system. This hybrid approach enables the company to deliver precision-engineered components in days, while maintaining quality standards through automated inspection processes, according to SAEKI. By incorporating automated quality assurance, the company ensures each part meets stringent industry standards, SAEKI adds.

The company is simultaneously launching an instant quoting platform for customers to upload designs, configure requirements, and receive immediate pricing for precision-engineered parts, SAEKI reports. 

“There's an exponential and widening divide between what we can design and what we can actually build,” says Andrea Perissinotto, co-founder and CEO of SAEKI. “While engineers can now use AI to create hundreds of optimized designs, legacy manufacturing simply can't deliver these components cost-effectively. By integrating additive manufacturing with CNC machining and quality assurance, we're giving industries the tools they need to innovate without constraints. This is a defining moment for European manufacturing as we set out to build a future with fully autonomous factories”.

The company’s CEO Perissinotto began his journey in his uncle’s workshop where he saw how traditional production relied heavily on skilled craftsmen with decades of experience. “We saw an opportunity to integrate advanced manufacturing technologies to overcome these limitations and scale production efficiently,” said Andrea Perissinotto. “The existing processes demand decades of experience and are incredibly hard to scale. With AI and robotics, we’re now able to abstract and automate these skills.”

SAEKI was founded by Perissinotto (CEO), Oliver Harley (CTO) and Dr. Matthias Leschok (COO), during their studies at ETH Zürich. The trio identified an opportunity to bring industrial-scale efficiency to large-format additive manufacturing and CNC machining.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.