Helsinki-based industrial AI startup Rotomate has raised €2.1 mn in pre-seed funding to expand its maintenance intelligence platform for industrial plants. Kvanted led the round, with participation from Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Business Finland, and angel investors including Jiri Heinonen and Moaffak Ahmed.
The company develops software that analyses machine data and maintenance records to help reliability teams assess equipment issues and prioritise maintenance actions.
The platform combines real-time operational data with historical maintenance information, then produces analyses and recommendations for plant operators.
Rotomate will use the new funding to develop the product further, hire additional staff, and support expansion into European industrial markets. The company is targeting Finland, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland as it builds its commercial pipeline.
Founded in 2024, Rotomate addresses a structural gap in industrial reliability. Over recent decades, plants have invested heavily in sensors and condition-monitoring systems designed to detect faults early.
The volume of machine data has grown fast, but the number of specialists able to interpret that data has not kept pace.
Most monitoring tools still stop at the alert stage. A human expert then decides which warnings matter and which require action. That creates a bottleneck, especially when one critical machine failure during an eight-hour shift can cost an industrial plant close to €1 mn in lost output.
Improving uptime and industrial reliability has an enormous potential in almost any industrial plant or factory, and it is bottlenecked not by data but by human attention
Mikko Kuusisto, co-founder and CEO of Rotomate
“We built Rotomate to scale that expertise, so that every plant can act on the most up-to-date data around the clock,” said Mikko Kuusisto.
Rotomate describes its product as an AI colleague for reliability teams. The system continuously analyses plant data, uses maintenance history and operational context, and replicates parts of the reasoning process used by senior maintenance specialists.
Where conventional condition-monitoring software stops at alerts, Rotomate produces a full analysis report. The report explains what caused the issue, what action operators should take, and why the recommendation fits the machine’s condition.
The company says the platform reduces manual monitoring time by up to 83%. It also gives industrial plants a way to apply expert-level analysis across every machine, rather than only the assets a reliability engineer has time to review.
“Most existing condition monitoring software stops at alerts. Experts go further. Software should too,” said Dr. Jesse Miettinen, co-founder and CTO of Rotomate. “Our product marks the transition from expert-driven processes to scalable maintenance systems delivering expert decisions.”
Rotomate works with industrial customers whose sites represent more than €35 bn in annual production. Its customer base includes process industry companies such as Metsä Group, SSAB, and Aurubis.
The team has grown from two to ten people over the past year. Rotomate now has a global commercial pipeline anchored in Northern and Western Europe, with market activity across Finland, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and Poland.
Kuusisto was an early employee at Swappie, where he helped scale revenue from the first €1 mn to €220 mn. Miettinen previously led AI research in condition monitoring at Aalto University before founding Rotomate.
Several other Rotomate team members hold PhDs in mechanical engineering and industrial AI. With the new funding, the company plans to hire across engineering, product, and commercial roles to support international expansion.
Eerik Paasikivi, general partner at Kvanted, said European factories have years of machine data but not enough specialist capacity to act on it. He said the cost appears in unplanned downtime and lost output.
Rotomate solves that bottleneck head-on by scaling expert-level reasoning to every machine in the plant, not just the ones a reliability engineer has time to review. That is exactly the kind of applied AI European industry needs right now.
Eerik Paasikivi, general partner at Kvanted
The pre-seed round also includes angel backing from Moaffak Ahmed and participation from Accel through its scout programme.
According to Beinsure analysts, Rotomate fits a practical industrial AI category where value depends on fewer shutdowns, faster diagnosis, and better use of existing machine data.
The product turns fragmented operational signals into maintenance decisions that plants can act on before equipment failure becomes production loss.
