Samuel Beek (Schematik)
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Samuel Beek (Schematik): $4.6M Pre-Seed & Cursor for Hardware
Samuel Beek reveals the news he kept quiet on his last appearance: Schematik raised a $4.6M pre-seed led by Lightspeed. He describes Schematik as 'a cursor for hardware' that turns a prompt into a parts list, wiring instructions, and deployable code, and tells how a Saturday launch — forced when Wired moved its story up — reached 200k+ people on X and ~100k on LinkedIn, arguing weekends are an underused launch window. He says in a post-AI world founders must own distribution by making their own content, explains the mission of making hardware as easy as building a website, points to personal-hardware trends like cyberdecks, DIY synths, and a Linear designer building his daughter a speaker, and teases a Hugging Face-style marketplace for hardware designs.