Applied Computing secures £9m seed funding led by Stride.VC and Repeat.vc to advance industrial AI.
The seed round was led by Stride.VC with participation from Repeat.vc to scale the company's industrial AI platform.
Applied Computing builds foundation models specifically designed for heavy industries such as oil, gas, and petrochemicals. Its flagship platform, Orbital, optimises physical operations to improve efficiency and reduce emissions.
Applied Computing has secured £9m in a seed funding round led by Stride.VC alongside Repeat.vc. The capital will support the company as it scales its industrial AI platform and prepares for a subsequent Series A fundraise.
The London-based firm developed Orbital, a multi-foundation model designed to optimise complex industrial sites such as refineries and petrochemical plants. The platform utilises edge deployment and processes comprehensive operational data to deliver cost savings and efficiency gains.
The financing highlights growing appetite among investors for technologies capable of modernising legacy energy infrastructure.
From the founder
"There is a comforting fiction that we can simply swap out the old for the new. But the scale of the transition is immense. The infrastructure of heavy industry cannot be erased — it must be transformed. That’s why we built Orbital. Without the energy industry, life as we know it is impossible. Refiners and petrochemical firms are the lifeblood of civilisations, yet their existence is frozen in time as many of the facilities that power our world are nearly 50 years old. As energy and chemical demand rises steeply at a global level, it is crucial that these essential industries transform themselves. Artificial intelligence can deliver significant financial and environmental improvements to benefit everyone on the planet."
Sam Tukra
Chief AI Officer at Applied Computing
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Applied Computing develops industrial foundation models for critical infrastructure sectors.