Rotomate raises €2.1M to automate industrial reliability analysis

Finnish industrial AI startup Rotomate has raised €2.1 million in pre-seed funding, led by Kvanted, with participation from Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Accel through its scout programme, and Business Finland through an AI development grant. Additional backing came from angel investors, including Moaffak Ahmed. Founded in 2024 by Mikko Kuusisto and Dr Jesse Miettinen, Rotomate develops AI software designed to help industrial companies improve equipment reliability and reduce unplanned downtime. The company is addressing a challenge facing many industrial plants: while organisations have invested heavily in sensors and condition monitoring systems, the availability of specialists capable of interpreting the resulting data has not kept pace. As a result, maintenance teams often struggle to determine which alerts require immediate attention and which can be safely deprioritised. According to Mikko Kuusisto, co-founder and CEO of Rotomate, improving industrial reliability is often constrained not by a lack of data but by the limited capacity of experts to continuously analyse and act on it. We built Rotomate to scale that expertise, so that every plant can act on the most up-to-date data around the clock. Rotomate’s platform acts as an AI-powered reliability assistant, continuously analysing machine and operational data alongside maintenance records and historical context. Rather than simply generating alerts, the system provides recommendations, root-cause analysis, and suggested actions intended to support maintenance and reliability teams in decision-making. Dr Jesse Miettinen, co-founder and CTO of Rotomate, said the company is focused on moving beyond traditional monitoring systems that generate alerts by providing automated analysis and recommendations that replicate expert decision-making at scale. According to the company, the platform can significantly reduce the time spent on manual monitoring activities while making expert-level analysis available across a larger number of assets within industrial facilities. The new funding will support further product development and international expansion, while enabling the company to grow its engineering, product, and commercial teams as demand for industrial AI solutions continues to increase.