Focus Area
Advanced Manufacturing
Additive, precision and smart factory production. The fund backs the companies that make making possible — the machines, processes, controls and inspection that turn a design into a part someone can qualify, repeat and buy at a price that holds at volume.
What we back.
- Additive production
- Metal and polymer additive used as production rather than as prototyping: machines, feedstock, build preparation, and the post-processing and qualification that decide whether a printed part can be put on something that matters.
- Precision machining and forming
- Subtractive, forming and joining processes where tolerance, surface and repeatability are the product — tooling, metrology, and the automation around a machine that keeps it cutting instead of waiting for an operator.
- Process control and inspection
- In-line measurement, non-destructive testing and closed-loop control that catch a defect at the station that made it, so yield is engineered into the line rather than sorted for at the end of it.
- The software a plant runs on
- Scheduling, traceability, quality systems and machine data — bought by operations because it shortens a changeover, documents a part's history for the customer who will ask, and makes a factory's own performance legible to the people answerable for it.
Why now
Why this sector, in this corridor, now.
Manufacturing stopped being only a cost decision. Supply shocks, trade policy, defense demand and the price of a late part have made proximity, provenance and flexibility worth paying for, and capability once limited to a handful of specialist shops — five-axis work, additive in production metals, automated inspection — is now within reach of a company with a hundred people. The constraint has moved from the machine to the process knowledge and the people who hold it.
The United States is rebuilding industrial capacity, and the UAE and the wider MENA region are building it at scale for the first time, with plants being specified now rather than retrofitted later. A new factory can be designed around automation, data and inspection from the first drawing, which is a far easier sale than persuading an existing plant to change the way it already works — and it is a reason for an equipment or software company to be in the region early.
What we look for
What a company in this area has to show.
The five criteria in How We Invest apply to every opportunity. These are the questions this area adds on top of them.
A qualified part, not a demonstration part
Something built to a customer's specification, inspected against it and accepted, with the yield, the scrap rate and the time it took recorded honestly rather than averaged into a better number.
Process knowledge written down
Parameters, fixtures, tolerances and failure modes captured as a process someone else can run. A capability that lives in one engineer's hands is a service business, and it should be built and priced like one.
The economics of the second machine
What the next unit costs, how long installation and commissioning take, who trains the operator, and what utilization the customer needs before it pays — the questions a buyer's finance team asks before the engineers are consulted.
Materials and supply secured
Feedstock, powders, tooling and the few components with a single credible supplier, with a qualification route for a second source and a clear account of what a shortage does to delivery.
Across the corridor
Why the corridor matters here.
Manufacturing is the physical part of the corridor, and the part where it pays fastest. The United States holds the process depth, the metrology and the specification discipline. The UAE and the wider MENA region hold new industrial capacity, a cost of energy and land that favors building, logistics that reach three continents from one site, and industrial groups willing to qualify a new process instead of waiting for someone else's reference. Standing up a second production site is also where companies discover what they never wrote down, so the work is to qualify the process rather than only move the machines — and to settle tooling ownership, intellectual property and export control before the first container ships. The fund is built to do that alongside the company rather than hand it a list of things to arrange.
What that support consists of in practice is set out under Capital + Capability, and how the markets are covered under Global Network.
Next
Building in Advanced Manufacturing?
Founders in the United States, the UAE and MENA can submit their company for review, or read how the fund decides first.