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May Founder Highlights — Shipping Fast with AI ⚙️🧑💻🚢
Kendrick Lau
May 30, 2025
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Hey All,
Hope your summer’s off to a strong start! In this issue, we’re spotlighting Ishita and Tejas — two founders building upon their past experience to launch powerful new tools in manufacturing and developer infrastructure.
Also, Elon’s back in the driver’s seat. With Robotaxi expected to hit the roads soon, it’s an exciting time to be following this next wave of autonomy! $TSLA ( ▼ 2.34% ) 🤞📈🚀
This Month’s Alumni Start-Ups 💪
ManufactureAI 🏭
Ishita & Sarah are building ManufactureAI — an intelligent operations platform to accelerate NPI for complex hardware.
The flagship tool, Launchflow, ingests mechanical dwgs/stps and generates detailed assembly instructions & bill of materials in minutes — making hardware integration with foundational models simpler.
Early adopters have reported 87% faster SOP generation, 64% reduction in document review time, and increase in factory throughput savings ICPs an estimated $200k+ annually.
Community Call-Out:
The team is raising a pre-seed round and looking for strategic partners in the space.
From the Founders:
Morph🕵️♂️
Tejas is building Morph, a model suite that is purpose-built to make AI coding agents actually usable in production.
Morph’s Apply, Embeddings, and Reranking models powers fast, accurate, and cost-effective code edits across any language.
Community Call-Out:
If you’re building AI agents that modify files, please email us! [email protected]
From the Founder:
Tejas Bhakta (Tesla, Autopilot ‘23) - LinkedIn
Fast Apply makes Cursor an incredibly sticky product. Morph gives AI coding agent companies that same product feel!
From The Last Issue 🗞️
Jose Dos Santos (Tesla, Manufacturing Engineering ‘24) - LinkedIn
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