Allie AI has raised $2.3 million in venture capital and is currently working with 30 of the largest industrial facilities in the Americas. The company plans to focus on customers in the cement, steel, food and beverage, plastics, and paper industries. The platform's go-to-market approach and the increased need for cloud-based industrial operations due to the pandemic have been beneficial for the company.
Key takeaways:
- Entrepreneurs Alex Sandoval and Nicolas DeGiorgis have founded Allie AI, a platform that brings monitoring and analysis to factory data, aiming to increase visibility and efficiency in the industrial and manufacturing sector.
- Allie AI has raised $2.3 million in venture capital and is currently working with 30 of the largest industrial facilities in the Americas.
- The platform connects to machines and sensors within a factory, building a “digital layer” on top of the factory’s processes and hardware to identify factors tied to productivity, quality costs and machine health.
- Allie AI also features a chatbot-like assistant that can provide information such as the most frequent component failures and instructions on how to perform specific preventative maintenance tasks.