Where these 4 top VCs are investing in manufacturing

If the current environment shows us anything, it’s how desperate manufacturing is for modernization. It’s time to accelerate digital transformation in one of our most essential industries.

We want to bring more manufacturing back to the USA but we have to acknowledge the reality that the industry looks a lot different know than it has in the past. Industry 4.0 requires different technical skills. In addition to implementing efficient new solutions, we need to train people to use them.

Even before COVID-19, many parts of the manufacturing industry were experiencing detrimental labor shortages. The use of automation and other systems that allow for distributed manufacturing would permit greater flexibility in where manufacturing sites were located.