Inside Nominal, the Intelligence Platform for Hardware Engineering | Lightwork

Claire Zau sits down with Bryce Strauss, co-founder of Nominal, on the day the company announced a $240 million Series C. Bryce is a trained aerospace engineer who has spent four years building software for hardware teams. Not software engineers, but the mechanical, electrical, aerospace and chemical engineers behind airplanes, rockets, cars, and the systems that get water to your house. Nominal started in aerospace, helping teams make sense of their test data, then moved into real time as those systems went into the field. It now works across energy, automotive and manufacturing, and has shipped the Analyst, its first in-platform agent.The executives buying this came up through engineering. They signed their names to decisions, and some have been deposed over calls their teams made. So the pitch isn’t automate everything, it’s move faster while being able to audit what the agent tells you. Bryce also gets into who Nominal hires, what re-industrialization actually demands once a prototype has to become a thousand units, and his argument about physical AI. Search the term and you get robots folding laundry. He thinks the version that matters is the car you get into and the plane you put your kids on.Stay in touch: www.lsvp.comX: https://twitter.com/lightspeedvpLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightspeed-venture-partners/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lightspeed/?hl=enThe content here does not constitute tax, legal, business or investment advice or an offer to provide such advice, should not be construed as advocating the purchase or sale of any security or investment or a recommendation of any company, and is not an offer, or solicitation of an offer, for the purchase or sale of any security or investment product. The views expressed by our guests do not necessarily represent the views of Lightspeed. For more details please see lsvp.com/legal.