Advanced Metal Research
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About Advanced Metal Research
YC company profile
Machine intelligence for American Welding
America does not just need more welders. It needs welding knowledge that can scale.
The American Welding Society projects 320,500 new welding professionals will be needed by 2029, with about 80,000 jobs to be filled annually from 2025 to 2029. More than 157,000 current welding professionals are approaching retirement. Welders are only a small share of the skilled-trades workforce, but welding accounts for an outsized share of projected capability demand.
The market calls it a labor shortage. AMR sees a learning bottleneck.
We are building American-made robotic welding cells that combine computer vision to provide real-time seam tracking and post-weld inspection to turn welding from a scarce manual process into a closed-loop manufacturing system that learns from every weld as it happens.
- YC batch: Spring 2026
- Founded: 2025
- Team size: 3
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
- Country: US
- Status: Active
- Industry: Industrials
- Stage: Early
- Tags: Hardware, Robotics, Manufacturing
- YC partner: Garry Tan
Founders
Angus Muffatti — Founder/CEO
+Last startup hit first $1m in 18 months &
$10m val at last investment from largest
aussie real estate group
- 3 published ML & AI optimisation papers
- Designed & built liquid bi-propellant
rocket engines & test facility
Julian Fried — Founder
Building robotic welding equipment | Prev. Welding foreman in Eastern PA 🇺🇸
Stephen Lin — Founder
Founder at Advanced Metal Research. Previously at NASA working on spacewalks and planetary exploration. Built systems used by mission control for 19 spacewalks to date enabling real-time telemetry & monitoring of EVAs.
Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.