120ft unveils plan to build autonomous microfactories, and raises a €576K angel round
120ft, a startup founded last year in Stockholm, wants to enable design-led consumer brands to produce closer to demand, and in small batches, through first-of-a-kind autonomous microfactories.
The company is coming out of stealth today, and also announcing a €576K angel round from 22 individuals and funds, including Ted Persson, Sophia Bendz, Matthias Dantone, and Planet A.
120ft founder Martin Willers previously co-founded Transparent, a maker of timeless, modular electronics. There he faced a problem where traditional manufacturing made it difficult to produce flexibly and respond to changing customer demand.
With 120ft, Willers aims to relieve smaller brands from being forced into long production cycles and large upfront manufacturing commitments, while having to deal with fragmented global supply chains.
120ft builds and operates modular robotic factories that prepare, assemble, inspect and pack products across three 40-foot containers, creating a standard modular production system that can be replicated and deployed in multiple locations. The three-container format gives the company its name: 120ft.
Brands pay the Swedish startup per finished product and are sharing robotic production capacity across multiple customers, while keeping their existing suppliers. The robotic manufacturing system is designed to learn from each production run. The company says it has already reduced the time needed to teach one end-to-end assembly skill from seven weeks in 2025 to seven hours in 2026, with the goal of reducing this to seven minutes in 2027.
The funding will support 120ft’s move towards commercial production and the development of its software and factory infrastructure. Longer term, the company plans to apply the same local production model to repair, infrastructure upgrades and remanufacturing.
I covered 120ft first in Swedish Tech News PRO in November 2025.
