Momenta spearheaded the Series A funding round for APER1O, a front-runner in operational data quality. APER1O offers AI-powered data observability solutions, enabling customers to foster profitable and sustainable operations while maintaining their existing workflows. As an industry leader, APER1O's solution excels at detecting, prioritizing, and rectifying crucial data issues tied to process historians, sensor monitoring, and data analytics.
This is the twelfth company receiving investment from Momenta’s AIoT Ecosystem Fund, powered by Advantech, the world leader in digital industrial solutions. APER1O will invest the funds to scale its software solution and global sales organization.
According to McKinsey, poor data quality is a consistent roadblock for the highest-value AI (Artificial Intelligence) use cases in industrial customers with asset-intensive operations. Legacy system architecture and weak data governance also contribute to data quality challenges.
APER1O offers an AI-driven SaaS platform called APER1O DataWise that automates the validation of real-time operational data in industrial organizations. It addresses data completeness, content, and metadata context, using AI and machine learning (ML) to scale, prioritize, and remediate data quality issues. The platform enables monitoring and validating millions of tags with actionable insights for data quality improvement. Their solution fills a gap that non-scalable in-house solutions cannot address and provides clear category leadership. It helps industrial companies make smarter data-driven decisions, improve profitability and sustainability, and mitigate risks associated with poor data quality.
"APER1O offers us a strategic opportunity to capitalize on an inflection point in the current market landscape. With their leading Data Quality platform, they provide an essential solution for top-tier industrial players facing significant data challenges." Michael Dolbec, Momenta's Managing Partner, expresses his excitement for APER1O's future as they fulfill a universal need within asset-intensive industrial businesses.
"We are strategically allocating the raised funds to fuel the expansion of our software solution and bolster our global sales network," explained Jonas Hellgren, CEO of APER1O, adding, "We are thrilled to have Momenta at the helm of this investment series, given their well-established reputation and extensive connections within the industrial sector."
Jerry O’Gorman, VP at Advantech IIOT division, stated, "We are pleased to support this investment in APER1O. Our leading role in edge computing gives us a deep appreciation for the value of data integrity and, thus, the need for sound industrial data operations. We look forward to collaborating with APER1O, co-creating to help them scale in this critical space."
About APER1O:
Founded in 2020, APER1O is the leader in industrial data integrity solutions. We help customers drive profitability and sustainability goals while mitigating risk in their industrial operations. Powered by AI machine learning, APE1O automatically validates operational data at scale to improve data accuracy, security, and value, allowing for smarter business decisions based on real-time, trusted, superior data. For more information about APERIO, visit http://www.aperio.ai.
About Advantech:
Advantech has the corporate vision to "Enable an Intelligent Planet." The company is a global leader in IoT, intelligent systems, and embedded platforms. To embrace the trends of IoT, big data, and artificial intelligence, Advantech promotes IoT hardware and software solutions with the industrial IoT platform WISE-PaaS core to assist business partners and clients in connecting their industrial chains. Advantech is also working with business partners to co-create business ecosystems that accelerate the goal of industrial intelligence. For more information, please visit https://www.advantech.com.
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