New Wave. Sid Khullar: Raising $10M (Pre-Seed) to Build the Agentic OS for Manufacturing
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Dec 4, 2025 
Siddharth 'Sid' Khullar, Co-founder and CEO of Aris Machina, previously led Software & AI at Northvolt. In this engaging discussion, Sid reveals the challenges of creating an agentic OS for complex manufacturing, emphasizing the need for AI to provide insights amidst data overload. Listen as he shares insights from Northvolt’s collapse, his pivotal 'aha' moment with a factory yield issue, and how he raised $10M in pre-seed funding after numerous rejections. He also envisions an app store for manufacturing that could transform the industry.
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Data Shows What, Not Why
- Modern factories collect massive data but rarely understand why things fail.
- Industrial super-intelligence must contextualize disconnected knowledge, not just pool data.
The Hole In The Wall That Broke Yield
- A catastrophic yield loss at Northvolt exposed gaps dashboards couldn't explain.
- A forgotten Excel construction log entry and a coincident machine out-of-spec were the hidden root causes.
Knowledge Graph As The Guardrail
- Aris builds a contextual ontology that maps assets, actions, and outcomes into a knowledge graph.
- That graph focuses search and prevents agent hallucination while connecting diverse data sources.