Cloneable Secures $4.6 Million in Seed Funding
Cloneable, a startup based in Raleigh, North Carolina, has raised $4.6 million in seed funding led by Congruent Ventures, with participation from First In, Overline, Bull City Venture Partners, and St. Elmo Venture Capital, according to Crunchbase News. This funding brings the company’s total raised to $5.35 million since its inception in 2023 and supports its efforts to use AI for shadowing human experts in heavy industries like energy and replicating their workflows into autonomous agents.
Company Background and Founders
Cloneable was founded in 2023 by Tyler Collins, Lia Reich, and Patrick Lohman, who previously worked at drone company PrecisionHawk. In 2019, during California wildfires, the founders were involved in inspecting infrastructure, where they observed teams struggling to review data from 150 drone pilots surveying thousands of miles of transmission lines. Reich, as CEO, noted an “aha” moment upon seeing workers manually reviewing footage, leading to the realization of a “knowledge crisis” in industries like energy, oil and gas, and agriculture, where experienced workers retire faster than they can be replaced.
Technology and Applications
Cloneable’s platform shadows experts to capture their institutional knowledge, such as in automated infrastructure inspection, which the company launched as Cloneable Field in February 2025. The startup is now launching an agentic product that codifies expert knowledge into scalable AI agents for industries including public utilities, vegetation management, construction, rail, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. For instance, the company states that a process like structural calculations for utility poles, which typically takes a human engineer eight hours, can be completed by a Cloneable agent in under two minutes, allowing a single engineer to process 4,500 to 5,500 poles annually compared to 2 million to 3 million by the agent. Cloneable has dozens of customers, including American Electric Power, Southern California Edison, Burns & McDonnell, TRC, Sigma, and Perdue, which is applying the technology to livestock and food supply, according to Crunchbase News.
Expansion and Growth
The funding will enable Cloneable to expand into infrastructure-heavy industries and support workflows that combine in-field data collection with agentic automation. The company reports that its annual recurring revenue (ARR) grew 100x between February and the end of 2025, and it differentiates its platform by leveraging a decade of experience in these industries to create cost-effective small models tailored to specific customer needs. Cloneable makes money through seat-based licensing for its field offering, focusing on automating tasks too complex for general AI, such as those requiring company-specific rules and tools. This approach addresses markets underserved by point solutions, potentially redirecting labor to higher-value work, as the company claims savings of $115,000 to $312,000 annually for a mid-size engineering firm.
