Ex-Northvolt execs launch AI startup with backing from top VCs: ‘This is industrial superintelligence’

Siddharth Khullar, CEO and co-founder of Aris Machina, on stage at Slush 2025. Credit: Siôn Geschwindt for Impact Loop
19 nov. 2025
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Siddharth Khullar, CEO and co-founder of Aris Machina, on stage at Slush 2025. Credit: Siôn Geschwindt for Impact Loop
At the Slush conference in Helsinki today, two Northvolt alumni, including former CEO Peter Carlsson, officially launched deeptech startup Aris Machina. The company, backed by top European and US investors, aims to bring “industrial superintelligence” to the factory floor.

Impact Loop was there to get the full story.

At Slush in Helsinki today, former Northvolt CEO Peter Carlsson and Siddharth Khullar, the battery firm’s previous VP of software engineering, officially launched Aris Machina – a deeptech startup building what they call an Agentic Operating System (OS) for manufacturing.

“This is the industrial superintelligence that connects science, labs, people, machines, test equipment, and data into a single loop of intelligence,” said Khullar during a presentation at the tech conference.

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