Podium Automation
Series A
Podium Automation designs and builds UL 508A-listed industrial control panels in Brooklyn.
Podium Automation designs, builds, and tests UL 508A and UL 698A listed industrial control panels for industrial automation buyers. The company offers a single integrated service that combines digital quoting, electrical design and schematics, component sourcing, enclosure modification, automated wiring and assembly, and full functional and compliance testing.
Orders move through a digital quoting interface that returns prices in about a day, then through an automated factory at the Brooklyn headquarters that ships completed panels within four weeks. Panels can be built to print or designed end to end against customer specifications, with point-to-point continuity, drawing-match verification, and full power-on testing conducted by a UL Manufacturer Technical Representative.
Industrial control panel demand is rising in the United States as manufacturers reshore production, energy storage and data center buildouts expand, and aerospace and defense programs scale. The published Podium Series A reporting cites this demand as the reason the company plans new United States factories beyond Brooklyn.
The segment is highly fragmented, with thousands of UL Industrial Control Panel Shop Program members serving local geographies through manual workflows. Podium positions its automated factory and digital quoting model against that fragmented incumbent base, with capital from the Series A directed at expanding capacity to meet growing industrial customer demand.
Podium pairs a proprietary design software platform with an automated factory, replacing the manual quoting and bench-build workflows that characterize most regional UL 508A panel shops. The combination produces faster quotes, shorter lead times, and tracked builds across the panel lifecycle.
UL 508A and UL 698A listings are issued by default rather than as add-on services, and panels are inspected by a UL Manufacturer Technical Representative before shipment. Recent backing from Construct Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Transition Ventures, Sunflower Capital, and Banter Capital gives Podium capital to scale additional United States factories beyond its Brooklyn headquarters.
Podium Automation designs and builds UL 508A-listed industrial control panels in Brooklyn.