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Serial

Root cause manufacturing issues in seconds

Y CombinatorWinter 2023InactiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignSaaSAnalyticsManufacturing

What they do

Problem

Manufacturers struggle to quickly identify the root causes of production issues, leading to days-long investigations and costly liabilities.

Solution

Serial is a manufacturing data software platform that integrates with production-line data sources and lets teams query their data to get instant root-cause answers.

Who it's for

Engineering and operations teams at manufacturing companies use it to investigate and resolve production problems.

Founders

Tak Alguire
Founder

Co-founder and CEO of Serial (W23). Tak has spent the past 5 years in manufacturing operations at companies such as Apple, North, and Fleetcarma. He has firsthand experience deploying large-scale data tools for the iPhone and Apple Watch to empower engineers to make data-driven decisions. Now he wants to help all engineers save time and effort.

Devon Copeland
Founder

Co-founder and CTO of Serial (W23). Devon has spent over 5 years working in hardware engineering at companies like Apple, Tesla, and Aeryon Labs. His obsession with timely, data-driven decision making has guided the engineering of several features on Apple Watch Ultra and the Model 3. Today, Devon is laser-focused on bringing his wealth of analytical engineering knowledge to Serial, thereby unlocking new cheat codes for any company making physical products.

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