Factory, an AI research lab building autonomous software engineering tools called Droids, has raised $1.8M in seed funding. The round gives the young company capital to push forward on its core bet: that software engineering can be increasingly handed off to AI agents rather than done entirely by hand.
Factory Raises $1.8M Seed Round
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