Manufacturing AI leader Tractian has secured $120 million in Series C funding led by Sapphire Ventures, with participation from General Catalyst, Next47 and NGP Capital. This latest investment solidifies the Atlanta-based company as a key player in the industrial maintenance space.
The funding will accelerate Tractian’s mission to optimize machine performance and ensure unprecedented uptime. And as an industrial co-pilot, Tractian distinguishes itself by providing integrated hardware and software solutions for industrial asset monitoring, physical operations and maintenance management, helping businesses ensure zero downtime and to improve technician productivity.
Industrial maintenance is facing a major crisis, with unplanned downtime now costing the world’s largest companies a significant percentage of their annual revenue. And recovery times have deteriorated considerably, almost doubling in the past five years.
This push is driven by systemic challenges. COVID has left critical skills gaps and altered global supply chains, exacerbating delays. Adding to the pressure is that modern equipment failures have become harder to detect and repair.
Tractian streamlines maintenance and reliability to create a strategic and profitable advantage. By addressing the root causes of downtime, Tractian bridges the human-machine knowledge gap and provides personalized insights by combining proprietary models and LLM to examine machine utilization, OEM specifications and specific operational user requests.
Tractian continues to drive innovation with a team of over 200 engineers dedicated to R&D across data, software and hardware. The company filed 12 patents this year, highlighting its commitment to proprietary technologies. Tractian plans to expand its portfolio of patented solutions next year while attracting top talent to engineering, data science and commercialization teams.
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“We see Tractian as a transformative force in the industrial sector, addressing one of the most costly challenges facing manufacturers today – unplanned downtime – with an AI solution that not only predicts problems, but also generates an operational return on investment. We are excited to support Igor and the Tractian team, whose commitment to solving this problem stems from Igor’s first-hand experience growing up with a father who worked in a factory. We believe this passion makes them ideally suited to redefine industrial efficiency as we know it.
– Anders Ranum, partner at Sapphire Ventures
“With an aging workforce and fewer young workers entering the field, the gap between human expertise and machine understanding is widening. This loss of analog and practical knowledge has forced industrial operations to struggle to maintain efficiency. There is growing momentum toward reshoring manufacturing to the United States, as companies seek to reduce reliance and build more resilient supply chains.
– Igor Marinelli, CEO and co-founder of Tractian