Nidus raises $30M for defense-factory robotics AI, Upstarts reports

Upstarts Media reports that Nidus has raised $30 million across a Costanoa-led pre-seed and a Kleiner Perkins-led seed round. The startup says it surpassed $1 million in bookings from unnamed defense industrial customers in four months. Its plan: fine-tune AI with task-specific data and deploy it on existing factory robots, starting with wire-harness preparation rather than rebuilding production processes from scratch.