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Julian Fried
Julian Fried
Founder, Advanced Metal Research
Company
Advanced Metal Research
Based in
Hawthorne, CA
Stage
Seed
Type
Founder
Julian Fried co-founded Advanced Metal Research in 2025 with Angus Muffatti and Stephen Lin, building the company out of Hawthorne, California through Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch. Before starting the company, Fried worked as a welding foreman in eastern Pennsylvania, where he watched veteran welders' tacit knowledge disappear as they retired. Advanced Metal Research builds robotic welding cells that combine computer vision, seam tracking, and closed loop inspection to address a projected US shortage of more than 320,000 welders by 2029, with early work reaching defense depots and shipyards.
Company
Advanced Metal Research
Advanced Metal Research
Advanced Metal Research builds AI guided robotic welding cells with computer vision seam tracking, inspection, and closed loop learning to automate American welding for industrial and defense clients.
Founded
2025
Stage
Seed
HQ
Hawthorne, CA
Investors
YC
Y Combinator
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