Finnish Startup Rotomate Raises €2.1M for Its AI Reliability Engineer

The capital is earmarked for two clear priorities: accelerating product development to add more industrial use cases and expanding the company's commercial footprint internationally, particularly across Northern and Western Europe .

Founders with deep technical and commercial roots

Rotomate was founded in 2024 by Mikko Kuusisto (CEO) and Dr. Jesse Miettinen (CTO) . Kuusisto, a self-described data-driven engineer, previously led investment materials for a $124 million Series C round at a previous venture, giving him direct experience scaling a capital-intensive business . Miettinen comes from a postdoctoral research background and serves as the company's technical lead . Miettinen has publicly described the company's origin as a response to a "structural problem in industrial reliability," where factories generate more condition monitoring data than their expert teams can possibly analyze .

An AI colleague, not another alert queue

In practice, Rotomate's reliability assistant works as an overlay on a plant's existing sensor and condition monitoring infrastructure. Rather than adding to the noise of generic alerts, the system validates findings against machine context and maintenance history, delivering prioritized, actionable diagnostic reports .

According to the company, this approach has cut manual monitoring time by up to 83% for its users . Its customers, which include European process-industry leaders Metsä Group, SSAB, and Aurubis, collectively monitor an equipment base worth over €35 billion in annual production .