Datch, a pioneer in AI technology for frontline manufacturing, energy and utility sectors, announced the closing of its $15M Series A via an extension led by Third Prime. The fundraise coincides with the launch of Datch’s latest product offering, Asset Insights
Industrial organizations face a growing challenge: intensifying competition requires them to increase asset availability while the skills gap across the industry widens at an alarming rate.
Datch’s Asset Insights seeks to solve this problem by leveraging breakthroughs in LLM and graph technology so organizations can turn the unstructured, disparate information within their ecosystem into actionable insights that improve operational outcomes. As the latest installment of Datch’s Frontline Intelligence Platform, it represents the next step in the company’s mission to empower operations that accelerate the world’s economy.
Datch CEO and cofounder, Mark Fosdike, explained, “The world is facing an enormous skills shortage, and AI is one of the key pillars to bridge that gap. While surfacing information has gotten easier over time, organizations have yet to leverage AI to generate true insights – think patterns, trends, predictions, understanding – that extend beyond efficient search and directly progress business objectives.” He continued, “By turning enterprise information into democratized knowledge, we are enabling industrial teams to not just survive these challenges, but to thrive in a new, highly productive frontier. We’re excited to partner with Third Prime to continue bringing this opportunity to the most influential organizations around the world.”
Third Prime, a leading venture firm focused on the industrial technology space, led the latest round of funding, and is joined by existing investors including Blackhorn Ventures, Blue Bear Capital and Susquehanna Investment Group.
Though today marks the public launch of Asset Insights, global enterprises working with Datch have already deployed the software across a wide range of use cases. Asset Insights has been used to generate field instructions to distribution line workers, automate data enrichment like fault codes and root cause for manufacturing reliability teams, and draft work plans for planning teams – all applications enabled by agentic workflows that automate many of the burdensome tasks these teams execute daily.
Asset Insights complements Datch’s flagship solution, D/4AM, an AI-driven mobility solution designed to enhance information capture by frontline workers tenfold. Together, these solutions form Datch’s Frontline Intelligence Platform, which aims to usher companies into a new era of augmented, data-driven decision-making.
Datch plans to use this funding to invest in market expansion within the enterprise while increasing capabilities within the Asset Insights toolkit.
SOURCE: BusinessWire