Jiga, an AI-powered sourcing platform used by NASA, Siemens, and hundreds of companies in aerospace, defense, and robotics, has announced a $12 million Series A round. The round was led by Aleph, with participation from Symbol—which led the Seed round—and Y Combinator.
The team explains that a software engineer can deploy an AI agent in just 3 hours, but a mechanical engineer may wait 3 weeks to get a quote for a custom robot part. This isn’t unusual—this is how most hardware companies still work today.
While software development moves quickly with AI, getting physical parts is still slow and outdated, stuck in “2005-style” processes. Because of this, AI progress is often slowed down by hardware procurement delays that can’t keep up.
Jiga was founded by Adar Hay (CEO), Yonatan Wolowelsky (CTO), and Assaf Geuz (COO). They solved the sourcing slowdown by creating an AI-powered manufacturing platform that handles the entire process in one place. Engineers can upload their drawings and requirements, get matched with trusted manufacturers, and order parts directly through Jiga.
The platform’s AI reads the drawings, understands the context from messages, spots potential risks early, and organizes all documents into one clear and transparent view. It also provides direct communication channels with suppliers.
Engineers still make the important decisions, but Jiga automates the time-consuming admin work and manages the outcomes using its manufacturing-focused AI platform.
“Hardware can’t keep pace if engineers chase quotes instead of design, and supply chain teams are buried in spreadsheets instead of strategy,” said Adar Hay, co-founder and CEO. “We’re eliminating the administrative burden so teams can move at AI-era speed. The capital will allow us to support the exponentially growing market demand.”
“Hardware moves only as fast as its supply chain,” said Eden Shochat, Equal Partner at Aleph. “For decades, custom parts procurement couldn’t be automated—buried in PDFs, emails, spreadsheets. Jiga is finally cracking it. What took three weeks now takes three hours. This is the hardware manufacturing pipeline rebuilt for software speeds.”
Even though Jiga is already profitable, the company raised a Series A round to keep up with growing demand from aerospace, defense, and advanced manufacturing companies that can’t afford slow, weeks-long procurement processes anymore.
The new funding will be used to upgrade Jiga’s premium production capabilities, improve its AI-powered quality checks for critical parts, and expand its enterprise infrastructure so it can support larger customers and new manufacturing categories.
Jiga is an AI-powered manufacturing platform that helps engineers quickly source and buy custom mechanical parts from trusted suppliers. It replaces the slow, messy process of dealing with multiple vendors by handling communication, supplier matching, documentation, and pricing in one place.
With Jiga, teams can finish sourcing tasks in hours instead of weeks, while still keeping full control and ensuring parts arrive correctly and on time.
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