Matta Raises $14M for Adaptive Manufacturing

In December 2025, the University of Cambridge spinout Matta raised $14 million in a Seed funding round. The investment was led by Lakestar, with participation from Chalfen Ventures and RQD.

The company is led by CEO Mantas Matjusaitis and CTO Dr. Edgaras Liberis. Matta is building the brain for “Sentient Factories”—manufacturing environments that can detect and correct their own errors in real-time.

Traditional industrial robots are precise but dumb; if a material is slightly warped or a part is misaligned, the process fails. Matta addresses this rigidity using “Grey-Box AI,” a hybrid approach developed at Cambridge that combines data-driven deep learning with physics-based simulations. By connecting to cameras and sensors, Matta’s software creates a closed feedback loop, allowing machines (like 3D printers or assembly arms) to “feel” mistakes as they happen and autonomously adjust their parameters to fix the issue without human intervention.

The new capital will be used to deploy its self-correcting AI with early adopters in advanced manufacturing and scale its research team to support this capital-intensive vision.

Market Signal

• The “Mega-Seed” Conviction: Raising $14M in a Seed round is rare. It signals immense conviction from Tier-1 investors like **Lakestar** that Matta is not just building a tool, but an “Operating System for Manufacturing” that fundamentally changes how factories run.
• Cambridge Pedigree: As a Cambridge spinout, Matta brings deep academic rigor to the factory floor. This “Lab-to-Fab” lineage is crucial for selling “Grey-Box AI” (physics-informed AI) to skeptical industrial giants who trust scientific simulation over black-box neural networks.
• From Automated to Adaptive: This round signals the industry’s move from “Automation” (blindly repeating a task) to “Adaptation” (smartly handling variance). This is the Holy Grail for high-value sectors like aerospace, where scrapping a part due to a minor error is incredibly costly.

Key Details

• Company: Matta
• Funding: $14M Seed
• Headquarters: London, UK (Cambridge Spinout)
• Lead Investor: Lakestar
• Founders: Mantas Matjusaitis (CEO), Dr. Edgaras Liberis
• Use Case: Grey-box AI for self-correcting and sentient factories