{"id":15229,"date":"2026-04-16T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=15229"},"modified":"2026-04-16T00:36:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:36:00","slug":"sonibel-instruments-raises-1-6m-to-rebuild-industrial-capacity-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/?p=15229","title":{"rendered":"Sonibel Instruments Raises $1.6M to Rebuild Industrial Capacity With AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sonibel Instruments, the AI manufacturing startup responsible for designing the world\u2019s first complete real-time weld quality control system, today announced the close of their oversubscribed pre-seed round. Maple VC led the $1.6 million round with Champion Hill Ventures, Dorm Room Fund, and strategic angels.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sonibel Instruments is the exponential efficiency boost manufacturers need to push through a $1.5 trillion order backlog and 320,000 shortage of skilled labourers&#8221; says Sophia Millar, CEO.<\/p>\n<p>Inves&#013;<br \/>\nSource: NDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonibel Instruments, the AI manufacturing startup responsible for designing the world\u2019s first complete real-time weld quality control system, today announced the close of their oversubscribed pre-seed round. Maple VC led the $1.6 million round with Champion Hill Ventures, Dorm Room Fund, and strategic angels. &#8220;Sonibel Instruments is the exponential efficiency boost manufacturers need to push through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iesinspection.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}