Re:Build is America’s answer to Shenzhen: the multidisciplinary engineering and manufacturing partner behind America’s most important new industrial products.

Framingham, MA
Joined May 2026
From the classroom to the factory floor, @MIT alumni are helping build the next era of American manufacturing. At @ReBuildMFG, MIT Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) alumni — including co-founders @jeffawilke, LGO ’93, and Miles Arnone, LGO ’93, along with Amanda Taplett Johnson, LGO ’07, and Lauren Heintz, LGO ’23 — bring deep expertise in manufacturing, operations, engineering, and management to complex industry challenges. Their work to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America aligns with the mission of the MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing (INM), an MIT-wide effort driving research, education, and collaborations to transform the future of manufacturing in the United States and beyond. @MITSloanAlumni @MIT_alumni
Five years ago, Miles Arnone, Will Barker and I started Re:Build because we believed deindustrialization was an economic failure and a national security risk. Today we announced $2.1B in new funding, led by General Catalyst and JPMorganChase’s Strategic Investment Group. Our mission is to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America.
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New project:@ReBuildMFG (follower 427) Bio:Re:Build is America’s answer to Shenzhen: the multidisciplinary engineering and manufacturing partner behind America’s most important new industrial products. alert follower :@htaneja
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jeff helped build amazon. re:build might just be the more impactful company when it’s all said and done.
Five years ago, Miles Arnone, Will Barker and I started Re:Build because we believed deindustrialization was an economic failure and a national security risk. Today we announced $2.1B in new funding, led by General Catalyst and JPMorganChase’s Strategic Investment Group. Our mission is to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America.
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That's serious $. @Miles_Arnone_MA, @jeffawilke and Will Barker co-founded Re:Build and @slateauto
$2.1 billion in new capital to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America. Led by @generalcatalyst + @jpmorgan. Covered today in @dealbook.
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Rebuilding America’s industrial capacity takes alignment. Today @ReBuildMFG announced $2.1B in funding, co-led by @generalcatalyst and @jpmorgan's Security and Resiliency Initiative. When financial institutions, technologists and builders align around resilience, capital gets deployed, talent follows, and the work gets done. American systems need to be sovereign and durable, and so do their physical foundations. If the US wants to hold its defense posture, lead in robotics, and turn its intelligence lead into hardware, it needs manufacturing infrastructure of its own. Much of our work at GC is about revitalizing the industries and institutions this country runs on. It’s why we’re transforming Summa, a century-old health system in Akron, OH. Re:Build is doing the same for the manufacturers that defined American towns for generations, and for those towns with them. We first invested in 2024. Proud to deepen our partnership with Miles Arnone, @jeffawilke, Will Barker and the whole Re:Build team
The names that built American manufacturing are iconic. Slater, who brought the mill. Lowell, who integrated it. Carnegie, who scaled steel. Ford, who set the line in motion. Deming, who taught the world quality. The forces of production that once built America are rebuilding America again. This is one of the most important economic and national security imperatives of our time. General Catalyst has backed @ReBuildMFG since 2024, and today we are co-leading their $2.1B round alongside JPMorganChase’s Security and Resiliency Initiative.
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JUST IN - North America @ReBuildMFG, led by co-founder and CEO Miles Arnone, secured US$2.1 billion in new funding led by @generalcatalyst and JPMorganChase's Strategic Investment Group to expand U.S. advanced manufacturing.
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JUST IN: @ReBuildMFG raised $2.1B led by @generalcatalyst and JPMorganChase. It's the manufacturing company that spun out Slate Auto, the Bezos-backed pickup truck startup. Co-founded by former Amazon exec @jeffawilke.
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Five years ago, Miles Arnone, Will Barker and I started Re:Build because we believed deindustrialization was an economic failure and a national security risk. Today we announced $2.1B in new funding, led by General Catalyst and JPMorganChase’s Strategic Investment Group. Our mission is to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America.
$2.1 billion in new capital to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America. Led by @generalcatalyst + @jpmorgan. Covered today in @dealbook.
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The interesting name on this one isn't the VC. JPMorganChase's direct-investing arm is co-leading a bet that America can make things again, from drones to brand-new industrial startups.
$2.1 billion in new capital to ensure the next generation of important products are made, at scale, in America. Led by @generalcatalyst + @jpmorgan. Covered today in @dealbook.
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$2.1B to design & build hard tech in America again. @ReBuildMFG raised the round today, co-led by @generalcatalyst & JPMorganChase. The company designs & manufactures products for other companies, from drones to medical devices, across 2.4M+ sq ft of US factories. ↳ Robotics & automation is one of 5 sectors the money will grow ↳ 2,100+ US employees, with tens of thousands of jobs projected over the next decade ↳ Founded in 2020 by Jeff Wilke, William Barker & CEO Miles Arnone Re:Build's own line: "America stopped building things. We're fixing that." 📷 @ReBuildMFG
The names that built American manufacturing are iconic. Slater, who brought the mill. Lowell, who integrated it. Carnegie, who scaled steel. Ford, who set the line in motion. Deming, who taught the world quality. The forces of production that once built America are rebuilding America again. This is one of the most important economic and national security imperatives of our time. General Catalyst has backed @ReBuildMFG since 2024, and today we are co-leading their $2.1B round alongside JPMorganChase’s Security and Resiliency Initiative.
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The names that built American manufacturing are iconic. Slater, who brought the mill. Lowell, who integrated it. Carnegie, who scaled steel. Ford, who set the line in motion. Deming, who taught the world quality. The forces of production that once built America are rebuilding America again. This is one of the most important economic and national security imperatives of our time. General Catalyst has backed @ReBuildMFG since 2024, and today we are co-leading their $2.1B round alongside JPMorganChase’s Security and Resiliency Initiative.
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On the latest Threat Status podcast, Miles Arnone, CEO of @ReBuildMFG, joins the show to explain exactly what went wrong with the American defense industrial base and how to fix it.
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