Rotomate, a Finnish industrial AI startup, has raised €2.1M in pre-seed funding to expand a platform that reads machine data and recommends maintenance actions the way a senior reliability engineer would.

The round was led by Helsinki-based Kvanted, with Robin Capital, Angel Invest, Accel’s scout programme, and Business Finland also taking part. Angel investors Jiri Heinonen and Moaffak Ahmed joined.

Founded in 2024 by Mikko Kuusisto and Dr Jesse Miettinen, Rotomate is trying to close a gap that has widened across heavy industry. Plants have spent years installing sensors and condition-monitoring systems. The supply of specialists who can read the resulting data has not kept up.

The result, the company says, is alert fatigue. Maintenance teams cannot always tell which warnings need action now and which can wait.

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