Autodesk, a software company, led a £37m ($45m) round in CloudNC, a software developer, with participation from Lockheed Martin. “When people think of manufacturing, they tend to think of robotic car factories, and don’t realise that the industry is dominated by craft processes reliant on dwindling expert knowledge. This makes it incredibly complex to get things made, stifling the pace of innovation,” Theo Saville, CloudNC CEO and Co-Founder of.