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Flux.ai

Hardware design tool

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21-100 employees
  • B2B
  • Manufacturing
  • Construction
SoMa, San Francisco, CA

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Company mission

To help hardware teams build better products through modern collaboration, live simulation, and a community library of parts.

Our take

Flux is a browser-based platform designed specifically for electronic hardware designers. The platform addresses long-standing inefficiencies that have persisted within the industry for decades, offering collaboration and simplified design access, allowing users to streamline their workflows and enhance productivity.

In addition to enhancing collaboration among engineers, the platform includes a Community Library feature. This feature facilitates the storage and sharing of open-source parts, simulation models, and schematics created by the user community. Similar to GitHub, this resource eliminates the need for engineers to start projects from scratch, enabling them to leverage existing work and accelerate their design process.

Established in 2019, Flux initially operated within private beta, attracting a user base of over 25,000 engineers. However, in early 2023, Flux announced its official public platform. With a vision to create unparalleled tools for PCB and electronic hardware, the founders have embarked on an ambitious mission. Yet there is undeniable anticipation within the industry for the tools Flux offers, positioning the platform to potentially make a profound impact on the market.

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Benefits

  • Health and Dental insurance, paid parental leave; with additional options for our US-based employees including FSA, 401k, etc
  • Equity compensation
  • Flexible unlimited vacation policy and ability to work your preferred hours in your own time zone
  • $5000 equipment budget for developers to build your ideal workstation
  • Consistent focus on making our remote culture more collaborative with team offsites, quarterly hackathons, regular VR hangouts, and team events

Company values

  • Impact: We focus on challenges that will have the most outsized impact
  • Velocity: We set our sights and MOVE FAST towards our goals
  • Curiosity: We are insatiably curious and always value new approaches. Good ideas always win at Flux and no one has a monopoly on good ideas
  • Risk Taking: We wake up ready to give our all and fail; we believe that you're guaranteed to fail if you don't take any risks, so we’d rather go out fighting!
  • Teamwork: We support each other and share ownership of our challenges and rewards. We are in this together, always
  • Transparency: We work hard to make sure everyone on the team has access to as much information as possible about every part of the company so they can make the best decisions and have the greatest impact
  • Customer Obsession: We constantly listen to customers, and then continuously build our products to solve their gnarliest problems

Funding (1 round)

Oct 2021

$12m

EARLY VC

Total funding: $12m

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Leadership

Matthias Wagner

(CEO)

Previously worked as a Product Manager at Facebook and General Assembly. Also co-founded the 42media group where they served as the CEO and Hochzeit where they served as the CTO.

Lance Cassidy

(CDO)

Graduated from the North Carolina State University with a M.S. in Industrial Design. Previously the Founder and CEO of DXLab Design. Also worked as an Aerospace Engineer at NASA and as a UX Designer at Lenovo.

Christian Blank

(CTO)

Graduated from the Munich University of Applied Sciences with a B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering. Previously worked as a Software Engineer at Cruise and as a Senior Software Engineer at Apple.