BUILD COOL STUFF.
Our cool products include…
SPLIT FLAP
PICTURE FLAP
ALGORITHM
And our interactive companion technology: Algorithm
OUR PHILOSOPHY.
We design our products to have an outward appearance of beauty, nostalgia, and interactivity, and we power our products with simple, easy-to-use, and up-to-date technology.
OUR VALUES:
BE HUMBLE
BE DETAILED
BE CURIOUS
BE ACCOUNTABLE
BE LIGHTHEARTED
BE DEDICATED
THE EARLY STUFF.
Oat Foundry began in 2013 with a team of six Drexel Engineers with a mission to build cool stuff. They spent their early days prototyping and building a range of products from furniture for coffee shops to ice cream packaging machines.
In 2015, they were presented with the task to build a Split Flap Display that used modern technology while maintaining old-school functionality. This task certainly fit under their “Build Cool Stuff” umbrella, so they built it – and kept on building them.
Since the first Oat Foundry Split Flap left our first shop in Bensalem, PA., our company has grown into a state-of-the-art production facility headquartered in the heart of Philadelphia manufacturing. Now solely producing cool analog technology with the help of 15 employees in four departments.
OUR COOL TEAM.
Charles Hussey
Full Stack Developer
Colin Lew
Project Engineer
Colleen Wilson
Senior Sales Representative
Dan Fetters
Production Supervisor
Jah’meir Reed
Multimedia Specialist
Jim Vescio
Sr. Mechanical Engineer & Co-Founder
Jon Salmon
Support Technician
Kristy Brunhofer
Sales Director
Lauren Hill
Senior Production Technician
Luc Tenthorey
Hardware Lead & Co-Founder
Luis Salgado Jr
Production Technician
Mark Kuhn
CEO & Co-Founder
Melissa Houghton
Digital Marketing & SEO Specialist
Mike Courtney
Software & Electronics Lead & Co-Founder
Natalia Welzenbach-Marcu
Office & Culture Admin
Sarah Van Bemmel
Creative Director
Sean Rossiter
President & Co-Founder
Ted Mooney
Production Technician
Vu Nguyen
Production Technician
LOCAL STUFF.
We assemble all of our analog products by hand at our headquarters in Philadelphia. Our office space is located in the Frankford Arsenal – a munitions factory dating all the way back to before the Civil War. Now the Arsenal is a 210,000 square foot office park – updated to modern workplace standards and houses companies in several industries from non-profit to healthcare to our Analog Tech. Critical components for our Analog Technology products, like the powder-coated sheet metal, the uniquely printed flaps, and the wooden crates for shipping, are all sourced locally in the Philadelphia area from vendors with whom we’ve developed long-standing relationships.
Philadelphia, PA – HQ
Indianapolis, IN – Satellite
Chicago, IL – Satellite
Schedule an in-person tour at HQ
WORLDWIDE STUFF.
We ship our analog technology all around the world and support our products from our HQ in Philadelphia, PA.
Check out some of our public installations below!
BRANDS WE WORK WITH.
2013
Oat Foundry Launch
19
Employees
300+
Installations worldwide
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