[Funding alert] Cloud manufacturing platform Frigate raises $175K in pre-Seed round

Frigate, an On-Demand Cloud manufacturing marketplace platform has raised $175K in pre-Seed funding round from strategic investors.

Investors include many names like Srinath Ramakkrushnan (Founder of Zetwerk), Abhishek Raj Pandey (Head of Sourcing and Procurement, Mamaearth), Vijay Pravin Maharajan (Bitscrunch), Prabhu Sengodan (SPK groups), Sundararaman Ramasamy (Founder of Wilcosource US), Vel Kanniappan (Angel Investor), Founders of M2P Fintech, Mohan and Jaikumar of Ippopay, and other angel investors from US, Japan, Germany, and Singapore.

The startup plans to use the funds to further strengthen the company’s technology stack.

The company is developing an AI-enabled platform by identifying the topology of the design and sending the right machines available in its platform to manufacture the same by connecting the machines through IIoT.

The startup is planning to set up offices in Chennai and Bengaluru to increase the headcount to 100+ within the next financial year.

Tamilnadu-based Frigate was founded in 2021 by Tamizh Inian, It is an on-demand cloud manufacturing marketplace platform that provides quick, risk free and cost effective fabrication, 3D printing and CNC machining services to OEMs, SMEs and Startups.

“We started as a prototyping company, and have pivoted at the right time as our customer wants their designs to be manufactured as well. We would like to acquire 200 more customers and be a $100M company in the next three years”, said, Tamizh Inian, Founder & CEO of Frigate.

“Frigate is a platform built by a young and energetic team that can optimize cost, time, quality, and efficacy from Prototype to manufacturing”, said, Vel Kanniappan, an active angel Investor.

The startup has inducted 150 SMEs on its platform for manufacturing of metal and plastic parts from Tier 2 and Tier 3 cities.

Abhishek Raj Pandey, Head of Sourcing and Procurement, Mamaearth, said, “Tamizh’s Founders have transformed this traditional setup into a startup and has been building the future of the manufacturing marketplace.”

The company has already exported parts to Singapore and Spain and wants India to become a manufacturing hub for the world.

About Frigate :

Name any sector be it Defence, Aerospace, Automotive, EV’s, Mobility, Robotics, Healthcare, or Consumer goods, Frigate has done at least a product in each sector. Yes, they are a horizontal on-demand manufacturing marketplace. They have in-house product development/prototyping facility at Trichy/Coimbatore along with over 120 specialty vendors to manufacture the same, be it metal, nonmetal plastics, rubber or composite parts.

They deal with 400 different materials. Frigate Engineering Services Private Limited bridges the gap between innovation and practice, by imparting clever and inventive ideas proposed by startups or industries and building myths to life digitally by ingeniously planning and manufacturing the said idea into well-engineered products using sustainable processes. At Frigate, as a Hybrid manufacturing marketplace, they aim to achieve simplicity in complex tasks by prototyping and producing parts that would be of great use for Purchase Engineers /R & D Engineers to convert their digital design to physical product.

They also work with startups by doing their MVPs, and POCs on various problem statements identified in the daily world and build from scratch, interesting eco-friendly products/prototypes based on the required need.