Alexander Fitzgerald
14 Mar 2026Lovable $400M, Revolut Licensed, EF $200M, GRITCULT Joins
Isambard CEO Alexander Fitzgerald: Re-industrializing the West
Alexander Fitzgerald, founder and CEO of Isambard, discusses the $50M Series A and the company's model: CNC component factories for defence, aerospace and energy customers, scaled through a franchise system — six factories across the UK and US today, 25 targeted by year-end, with Germany, France and Ukraine next. He argues the West's industrial base is a retiring long tail of small suppliers, that assembly is a small slice of manufacturing's value, and ties the mission to a multi-polar world and reshoring. He also details hiring: reverse-engineered roles, an in-factory assessment day and the "star chamber" final round used to surface truthful, mission-driven candidates.
13 Mar 2026Lovable $400M, Revolut Licensed, EF $200M, GRITCULT Joins
Isambard's Alexander Fitzgerald on Reindustrializing the West
Alexander Fitzgerald, founder and CEO of Isambard, describes the company as a manufacturer for critical industries combining CNC machining with proprietary software and AI, scaled through a franchise factory model — six factories today, targeting 25 by year-end across the UK, US, Germany, France, and Ukraine. He frames the retiring long tail of small component suppliers as an existential threat to the West, discusses the multipolar world driving defense and reshoring spend, and argues talented people should work on hard, important problems. He also details Isambard's "reverse hiring" approach of building roles around brilliant people and its final-stage "star chamber" assessment day, including screening candidates for mission fit.