Karan Talati, Founder and CEO of First Resonance

Karan Talati is the Founder and CEO of First Resonance, a software platform for building hardware. First Resonance brings new insight and flexibility to the manufacturing process, allowing customers to iterate on hardware design, analyze real-time data, and automate production. Karan’s journey at First Resonance began with the vision of a factory floor where people, machines, and processes were connected from start to finish.

First Resonance was designed to tackle two huge challenges in manufacturing: work flow and part flow. Workflow includes core functions such as quality management, production analytics, and process automation. Part flow covers the complicated process of supply chain purchasing, inventory and Bill of Materials (BoM) management, and component traceability. While these systems can be summarized succinctly in principle, they present enormous complexity in application.

Karan gained firsthand knowledge of these challenges early in his career. First, while serving as a Software & Manufacturing Engineer at SpaceX, and then later as a Data Engineer at Sense360. Karan saw the potential of a software platform that could manage data across machines, trace materials from purchase order to deployment, and direct human capital where it mattered most. Armed with this insight, he set out to build a toolkit for the evolution of manufacturing.

Today, First Resonance serves customers in Automotive, Aerospace, Robotics, and other Advanced Industries. Customers use the platform to automate 3D printing and job routing, supercharge satellite engine production, and reduce the number of hours engineers spend manually collecting data – just to name a few use cases. When people, machines, and processes are optimized and aligned toward a mission, innovation thrives.

We are thrilled that Karan recently announced the successful close of the company’s $14 million Series A round, led by Craft Ventures and with participation from Frontier Venture Capital, Blue Bear Capital, Fika Ventures, and Stage Venture Partners.