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

Industrial facilities are drowning in sensor data but starved for the human expertise needed to make sense of it. Helsinki-based Rotomate, founded in 2024, is building an AI-powered "reliability colleague" to close that gap, and it just secured €2.1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its solution across Europe.

The software is designed to act like a senior reliability engineer, continuously analyzing machine signals, maintenance history, and process context to filter out noise, flag emerging equipment failures before they cause downtime, explain root causes, and recommend concrete maintenance actions .

The €2.1 million pre-seed round

On June 10, 2026, Rotomate announced a €2.1 million pre-seed funding round led by Kvanted, a Nordic industrial technology investor . The round saw participation from Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Accel (through its scout program), and Business Finland via an AI development grant. Angel investors including Moaffak Ahmed, Jiri Heinonen, and Lin Gong-Deutschmann also joined the round .

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 .