Forgepoint Raises $9.8M From Primary and a16z Speedrun to Give Factories an AI Sales Team

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Forgepoint raised a $9.8M seed led by Primary and a16z speedrun for Frank, an AI sales rep that helps US manufacturers quote faster and win more work.
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Forgepoint has raised a $9.8 million seed round led by Primary Venture Partners and a16z speedrun, with angel investors from OpenAI, Brex, Vercel and SoFi. Its AI Inside Sales Rep, Frank, runs the request-for-quote to purchase-order process for manufacturers using each shop's own pricing rules and approvals. Forgepoint reached seven-figure annual recurring revenue within six months of launching Frank, with hundreds of engineers, estimators and sales reps using it every week. Customers send 30% more quotes a month on average and cut their time to quote by more than 55%. Construction spending on US factories was still running at $171 billion a year in August 2026, more than double its 2021 pace. Nearly half of manufacturers now expect a vendor to respond within 24 hours, according to a 2025 Gardner Intelligence study.