As industrial cyber threats escalate and manufacturing reshores to the United States, Copia Automation has raised $26 million to bridge the gap between IT-grade software security and physical hardware. The funding round brings the company’s total capital to $55 million, aimed at standardizing how critical infrastructure handles PLC code recovery.
The round was co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, with participation from KAS Venture Partners and existing backers including Lux Capital and Construct Capital. The capital infusion combines equity and venture debt, targeting the development of a unified platform that provides version control, validated backups, and recovery tools for operational technology teams.
Industrial programmable logic controllers (PLCs) often operate on proprietary systems incompatible with standard IT security software. This fragmentation leaves critical infrastructure vulnerable to downtime and cyberattacks, as automation teams lack the centralized governance tools common in enterprise software development. Copia plans to use the new resources to expand its deployment capabilities across cloud environments, on-premise data centers, and air-gapped systems.
"The most critical code in the world has been managed with the least support," said Adam Gluck, founder and CEO of Copia Automation. Investors highlighted that as manufacturing infrastructure modernizes, industrial code has shifted from a background utility to a strategic asset requiring the same rigorous oversight as enterprise applications. With this backing, the company intends to establish itself as the definitive system of record for industrial operations, ensuring that sectors like energy, defense, and aerospace can recover rapidly from incidents.
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