Sift: Two Ex-SpaceX Engineers Raise $20M to Bring Rocket Launch Data Infrastructure to Factory Floors

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Sift, founded by two former SpaceX engineers, is building the data infrastructure for advanced manufacturing using the same software patterns that helped launch rockets — real-time telemetry ingestion, anomaly detection, and root cause analysis across industrial sensor data. The company raised funding to scale from aerospace into broader factory-floor applications. For builders in industrial AI, this is a signal that SpaceX-grade observability tooling is becoming available as commercial infrastructure.