Lingju Innovation Completes Tens of Millions of Yuan Angel Round; Desktop CNC Product CubiFab C1 to Launch Crowdfunding in November

The first product is positioned as a "personal CNC workstation" and will launch a crowdfunding campaign in November this year.

Author: Yao Dan | Editor: Dong Zibo

Leiphone.com · Jingxi has learned exclusively that desktop CNC company Lingju Innovation (brand name CubiFab) recently completed an angel round of financing worth tens of millions of yuan, jointly invested by Nanshan Zhanxintou and Longhua Capital. Previously, Qifu Capital participated in its seed round. Lingju Innovation uses x86 as its technology foundation, placing AI computing power and real-time control on the machine side (Edge). Its first desktop CNC product, CubiFab C1, is positioned as a "personal CNC workstation" for Makers worldwide, helping users complete the closed loop from design to metal functional parts on their own desktops.

CubiFab C1 differs from traditional products: from the very beginning, its goal was to break down the operating barrier of CNC. In addition to a machining accuracy of ±0.01 mm, the C1 also features ease-of-use functions such as AI process assistance and automated vision-based tool setting, making it easier for beginners to get started, and it can rely on modular hardware to achieve multi-material machining, bringing small-batch manufacturing capability to the home desktop. Over the past fifteen years, consumer-grade manufacturing has completed two waves—3D printing made "creating shapes" simple, and desktop lasers made "processing soft materials" simple. But 3D printing is easily limited by materials and has inherent limitations, often remaining at the "prototype" stage rather than becoming a "finished product"; traditional CNC is useful but hard to learn, deterring many users and preventing them from truly putting it to use. Yet functional parts that truly require strength, tolerances and real materials—such as metal brackets, precision fixtures, robot structural parts, and heat dissipation and transmission components—can still only be made back at the factory. At the same time, as AI hardware, robotics and embodied intelligence startups heat up, demand on the R&D side for rapid iteration and small-batch manufacturing continues to grow, and individuals and small teams increasingly need to machine metal parts on their own. As a result, a real "gap" has emerged in the market: consumer-grade products struggle to stably machine hard metals, and multiple processes rely on manual tool changes; industrial-grade equipment, meanwhile, is destined by price, size, noise, dust and safety requirements to belong in the workshop rather than the study. The middle position—"placed in real life and work scenarios, safely enclosed, able to cut metal, and not requiring half a year of CAM learning first"—has long gone truly unaddressed. This is precisely the starting point of CubiFab C1.

The core team members of Lingju Innovation come from companies and institutions such as Intel, Apple, DJI, Anker and Bambu Lab, and possess both an engineering foundation in industrial control and precision manufacturing, as well as the ability to mass-produce consumer-grade hardware, expand overseas and deliver user experience. It is reported that the first product, CubiFab C1, will land on Kickstarter in November 2026, launching a crowdfunding campaign for users worldwide. The company said the crowdfunding proceeds will mainly be used for preparation of initial production capacity, construction of a global logistics and service system, and continuous iteration of subsequent products and processes.