Litmus Secures Funding to Scale Industrial AI with OT Data

We're excited to partner with Litmus in its next chapter of growth! Congratulations to Vatsal Shah, John Younes, and the Litmus team on their new raise. Insight Managing Director Joshua Fredberg noted: "Litmus is addressing one of the hardest challenges in modern manufacturing-enabling Industrial AI on fragmented data. We're backing one of the only platforms that truly bridges OT and IT data at scale and turns that capability into measurable outcomes." More on the news here: https://lnkd.in/eutUKXMA

Excited to share the news of a strategic investment from Insight Partners and Munich Re Ventures. This enables us to invest more to enable our partners to deliver against customer outcomes that they have struggled for years to realize. It is time to unlock OT data and make it available to the users and applications that need it to drive business success.

Thrilled to share Litmus Automation's funding round! Everyone’s buzzing about "Physical AI", but in manufacturing the real bottleneck isn’t the model: it’s the data infrastructure beneath it. Machine data remains trapped across hundreds of PLCs, sensors, and control systems that don't speak the same language. If you can’t access, standardize, and contextualize that data in real time, AI projects stall before they even start. Litmus has been solving this long before AI was the headline. For a decade Vatsal, Sacha and John have built a platform that unifies industrial data, activates it at the edge, and makes it usable for analytics, automation, and now AI. This isn’t "just another connectivity tool": it’s the foundational layer for the industrial AI era. And the timing couldn’t be better. Proud to back this team as they power the next wave of industrial intelligence. ⚙️🚀

Proud to share the news of the strategic investment from Insight Partners and Munich Re Ventures to accelerate our work in unlocking OT data and helping partners drive real customer impact.

SLS Client MRV Joins Litmus’ Strategic Funding Round Silicon Legal’s Munich Re Ventures client team includes Ryan Southerland, Kevin Morrissey, Andre Gharakhanian, Ian Peck, Tina Lee, Madelyn Tarr, Nicole Nazarian, and Robert Moore.

As the latest investment out of HSB Fund II, I’m looking forward to exploring the partnership opportunities between Litmus and HSB - Hartford Steam Boiler. Machine data that is accessible, standardized, and contextualized will enable industrial AI applications to thrive. HSB is interested in how real-time industrial data can transform risk management, enable proactive equipment health monitoring, drive predictive maintenance insights, and produce data-driven risk assessments that benefit both manufacturers and insurers.

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