Maihem
Adaptive AI welding robots for manufacturers of any scale
About Maihem
At Maihem, our mission is to empower every manufacturer, no matter their scale, with intelligent robots to invent and build anything.
We are witnessing the start of a new industrial revolution—an era of rapid innovation and advanced manufacturing powered by AI and robotics. We aim to lead this shift by putting these tools into the hands of every manufacturer, ensuring the power to invent and build at scale isn’t a privilege of the few.
But this era of abundance depends on solving a systemic labor crisis. For any economy to advance its industry and secure its supply chains, it must address the work that no longer attracts a human workforce. We are building AI to handle the dull, dirty, and dangerous. By offloading the hazardous and the mundane to intelligent machines, we empower manufacturers to compete globally while driving prosperity locally. In doing so, we enable the creation of new, purposeful jobs—ensuring that the future of innovation remains human-centric, boundless, and accessible to all.
We are:
- Backed by Y Combinator and founders of PayPal, Affirm, Slack – with a $6M seed round. Scout investments by Sequoia, a16z, Accel, and Kleiner Perkins.
- Founding team of AI PhDs and previous startup CTOs – everyone has a founder/CTO background.
- Building with real industry partners from the start – focused on shipping robotic solutions for real-world deployment in record time.
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Company details
Funding
Total raised
$6M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Founders
Eduardo Candela
PhD in AI Safety from Imperial College London and MSc in AI from MIT; expertise in AI safety for autonomous vehicles and data science.
LinkedInMax Ahrens
Max is the Founder & CEO of Maihem. He did his PhD and Postdoc in Machine Learning at the University of Oxford. During his Postdoc, he was also the Project Leader of a +$500,000 research grant which he was awarded by the Alan Turing Institute and the British Ministry of Defence. Previously, he worked as a consultant with McKinsey.
LinkedInWhat happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.
