I’m thrilled to announce that Jeevy Fabrication, which we first backed at seed, has raised a Series A led by Standard Capital.
Jeevy is an AI-driven fabrication company focused on automating and vertically integrating the welding process within EPC (engineering, procurement and construction). It combines software automation with physical manufacturing to improve speed, quality and unit economics on high-spec infrastructure and aerospace projects. We invested in 2025 as the founders were coming out of Y Combinator.
Watch the founders’ interview for a more in-depth overview
Industry context
The global welding market is worth about $27 billion and should reach $41 billion by 2034. Yet the United States has a critical shortage of high-quality weld capacity, particularly for high-spec, large-scale infrastructure and aerospace fabrication. This shortage directly delays some of the most important hardware companies in the world.
Much of this comes down to how welding is still done. It remains heavily manual, fragmented across small mom-and-pop shops, and lacks software-enabled coordination. For mission-critical builds, such as fusion reactors or spacecraft components, this leads to frequent delays and unpredictable quality.
For these customers, the issue is rarely price but coordination, speed and quality. Large incumbents do exist, but their high-headcount models are neither agile nor scalable.
From SpaceX to Jeevy
Jeevesh Konuru, Jeevy’s CEO, saw this problem firsthand. After studying mechanical engineering at MIT and aerospace at Stanford, he spent several years at SpaceX, leading a team of eight engineers on Starship’s cryogenic loading systems, the ground equipment that fuels the rocket. He managed a $110M budget covering the design, procurement and build of the propellant loading system. Even there, projects waited weeks for welded parts, because no partner could meet their deadlines, quality specs and coordination needs.
He started Jeevy with his brother Vinay, who studied computer science at Princeton and won the top prize at its Research Day for a desktop direct air capture system. Vinay then joined Rondo Energy as the personal engineer of its founder, developing the software and technical models behind its large project sales, before dropping out of his master’s at Stanford in 2025 to start Jeevy.
Jeevy Fabrication overview
Jeevy’s ambition is to solve the U.S. weld capacity shortage from the ground up. A customer sends the drawings for a tank, a piping system or a skid, and Jeevy takes responsibility for the whole job, from purchasing to delivery, instead of the customer managing a chain of subcontractors.
At the heart of Jeevy is its software engine. Starting from the engineering drawings, its AI breaks each job into tasks, works out the people, equipment and materials each one needs, and builds a schedule that respects every deadline and every partner’s capacity. That schedule then adjusts itself in real time as the work moves forward.
Most of the volume, around 90%, goes to a network of partners covering a dozen specialties, from machining to coatings. The software constantly rebalances open tasks between them based on each partner’s live capacity, workload and on-time record. Whichever partner does the work, every task is tracked in the same system and the customer sees one schedule.
The most complex work, about 10% of the volume, stays at Jeevy’s headquarters near Fort Worth, Texas. It covers the jobs where any delay would hold up the whole project, such as cryogenic tanks, final assembly and testing. The site doubles as a lab, where data from live projects helps train Jeevy’s AI.
Case study: SpaceX
In the interview, the founders point to a project for SpaceX, one of Jeevy’s biggest customers, as the most telling example of their work. Contrary to what many assume, the rocket maker does not build everything in-house. Like the rest of aerospace, it outsources much of the equipment around the rocket, such as ground support systems, so its own engineers can focus on the rocket itself.
For this project, Jeevy was asked to build fluid skids. A skid is a structural assembly that holds valves, piping, tubing and electrical systems in a single unit with one purpose. Building one requires several types of fabricators, six different parties here, to work on the same unit, on a single schedule, with a deadline several months out.
Jeevy automates much of that work. Its software handles the build engineering and schedule, and pulls in progress data from each party to check how the job is tracking against the deadline. If a part such as a valve arrives late, it shows what that means for the final schedule, so the team can decide what to do.
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Congratulations to both founders, Jeevesh and Vinay Konuru and the team on this Series A, and on everything they have built in such a short time.