While automation in the industrial sector often focuses on physical robots completing tasks in the real world, a Bay Area startup has emerged that will help heavy industry automate its digital operations. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Nexxa.ai has netted $4.4 million after a successful speedrun with Andreesen Horowitz’s AI incubator, a16z.
The company offers specialized AI agents that understand industrial engineering context and integrate with existing software, engineering tools or estimating systems. It said industrial engineers need to augment those legacy systems too often with manual processes to execute complex operations.
“Having worked in industrials for over a decade, I believe that there has never been a more critical time to invest in technology that can have a real impact on our infrastructure. Our goal is to build an AI approach that can understand and learn deeply technical operations from scratch,” said Philipp Wehn, co-founder and CEO of Nexxa. “We are excited to bring on this additional capital and institutional guidance to accelerate our AI development.”
The pre-seed funding round includes participation from Augment Ventures, Propeller Ventures, Plug and Play, Beat Ventures, SBI, Untapped Ventures, and Cross Atlantic Angels as well as other angel investors.