Carnegie Foundry

Carnegie Foundry Carnegie Foundry is a venture studio partnered with Carnegie Mellon University's National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC), backed by Fortune 500 anchor investments from US Steel and Oshkosh totaling approximately $100M. The focus on AI, sensor innovation, robotics, and signal processing leverages CMU's world-leading robotics research program to create spinout companies. Spinouts include VoxEQ (voice AI fraud detection), Freespace Robotics (warehouse automation), and Thryve La