Today, Framework is the modular repairable laptop company. Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period. That’s one of the biggest reasons it just raised another $18 million in funding — it wants to expand beyond the laptop into “additional product categories.” Framework CEO Nirav Patel tells me that has always been the plan and that the company originally had other viable ideas beyond laptops, too.
” The company’s $9 million seed round paid for the original 13-inch laptop design, which has carried on for three generations of components. Framework’s $18 million Series A paid for the Framework Laptop 16.