Copia Automation announced $26 million in additional funding, bringing the company’s total capital raised to $55 million. The round was co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, with participation from KAS Venture Partners and continued backing from existing investors Construct Capital, Lux Capital, Ironspring Ventures, and Renegade Partners. The financing included a combination of equity and venture debt.
Copia provides industrial code management and resiliency solutions designed to help operational technology teams manage, back up, secure, and recover the programmable logic controller (PLC) code that powers critical infrastructure and manufacturing operations.
The company said the investment comes as manufacturing reshoring, infrastructure modernization, and expanding automation increase the importance of safeguarding industrial control systems against cyberattacks and downtime incidents. Unlike traditional IT software, PLC environments rely on proprietary tools that often lack modern version control, validated backups, and AI-assisted coding capabilities.
Copia plans to use the new funding to accelerate product development, support deployments across cloud, customer-managed data centers, and air-gapped environments, and strengthen capabilities for OT incident response teams.
Founded on the belief that industrial code should be governed with the same discipline as enterprise software, Copia aims to provide organizations with a unified platform to manage and protect automation code across the full lifecycle.
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“The most critical code in the world has been managed with the least support, and that no longer holds in an economy being rebuilt on automation. This is about the readiness and resilience of the infrastructure modern industry depends on, making sure that when something goes wrong, teams can recover quickly and maintain uptime. This funding lets us continue building the platform that makes that possible.”
Adam Gluck, Founder and CEO of Copia Automation
“Copia has built the category-defining platform for industrial code management at exactly the moment the market needs it most. As manufacturers modernize legacy infrastructure, reshore production, and face a rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, industrial code is becoming a strategic asset that must be governed with the same rigor as enterprise software. In sectors like aerospace, defense, energy, and critical infrastructure, traceability, security, and recovery are no longer optional. We’re excited to co-lead this financing and support Copia as it becomes the system of record for the world’s most critical industrial operations.”
Tyler Rowe, Partner at AE Ventures
“Cybersecurity has come a long way, but critical infrastructure remains one of the most vulnerable and under-addressed attack surfaces. It has never been more important to safeguard the industrial control systems that keep our society running, and Copia has the vision and execution tenacity to do it. Adam and team have demonstrated unmatched hustle and ability to innovate at the point where physical meets digital.”
Guy Filippelli, Managing Partner at Squadra Ventures
