Datch, an AI-based frontline manufacturing, energy, and utility sector pioneer, announced the closing of a $15 million Series A via an extension led by Third Prime. This funding round also coincides with Datch’s latest product offering, Asset Insights.
Industrial organizations face a major challenge: Intensifying competition requires them to increase asset availability while the skills gap across the industry continues to widen.
Datch’s Asset Insights addresses this issue by utilizing breakthroughs in LLM and graph technology so organizations can turn the unstructured and disparate information within their ecosystem into actionable insights that improve operational outcomes. As the latest installment of Datch’s Frontline Intelligence Platform, this represents the next step in the company’s mission to empower operations that accelerate the world’s economy.
Global enterprises working with Datch have already deployed the software across a wide range of use cases. And Asset Insights has been used to generate field instructions to distribution line workers, automate data enrichment like fault codes and root cause for manufacturing reliability teams, and draft work plans for planning teams – all applications enabled by agentic workflows that automate many of the burdensome tasks these teams execute daily.
Asset Insights complements Datch’s flagship solution D/4AM, which is an AI-driven mobility solution designed to enhance information capture by frontline workers tenfold. And these solutions form Datch’s Frontline Intelligence Platform, which aims to usher companies into a new era of augmented, data-driven decision-making.
Datch plans to use this funding round to invest in market expansion within the enterprise while increasing capabilities within the Asset Insights toolkit.
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“The world is facing an enormous skills shortage, and AI is one of the key pillars to bridge that gap. While surfacing information has gotten easier over time, organizations have yet to leverage AI to generate true insights – think patterns, trends, predictions, understanding – that extend beyond efficient search and directly progress business objectives.” He continued*, “By turning enterprise information into democratized knowledge, we are enabling industrial teams to not just survive these challenges, but to thrive in a new, highly productive frontier. We’re excited to partner with Third Prime to continue bringing this opportunity to the most influential organizations around the world.”*
- Datch CEO and cofounder, Mark Fosdike
“Today’s most critical industries rely on data to power their growth. Datch is enabling companies on the industrial frontline to improve their deskless workforce’s access to high-quality data and empowering workers to use those insights in real time. By leveraging AI, Datch reduces asset downtime and optimizes manufacturing performance to drive tangible ROI to both its customers and their enormous end markets.”
- Third Prime General Partner Mike Kim
