CEO Leah McClure interned at Neuralink and Tesla, then led Waterloo's hyperloop team. She studied thermals, aerodynamics, and EV motor controllers - and decided the biggest unlock was in how we make clothes.

CTO Anson Tsang was doing a Materials Science PhD at Princeton and interned on battery engineering at Tesla and display design at Apple. Princeton Student Ventures backed the round. These are hardware people treating the stitch like a physics problem.

Apparel is a $274B market in the U.S. and it still runs on 150-year-old sewing tech. Sewing eats over half the production time on a pair of jeans; crochet is still fully manual. Rotostitch automates it all - from complex handwork to tweaking patterns mid-cycle without retooling.

They've raised $1M oversubscribed pre-seed from Boost VC and Nova Threshold. U.S.-Asia shipping costs spiked 165% in early 2024 and brands are desperate to nearshore, but there are no factories smart enough to do it. Yet.