This Week in Startups · Wednesday, September 2, 2026
Nox Metals is streamlining the $200 billion metals market by acting as an intermediary between steel mills and manufacturers, with a focus on the aerospace and defense sectors. The company is addressing the industry's low adoption of software engineers, aiming to modernize operations with a software-like speed.
“Nox Metals is one of the companies in our portfolio that's growing the fastest.”
“So basically, Nox is an intermediary between the steel mills and then downstream manufacturers in aerospace, defense, um, and other manufacturing companies. And it's a $200 billion market.”
“Um, and there's less than 40 software engineers currently employed in the industry. So they are modernizing this, yeah, incredible sector.”