Cloneable Raises $4.6M Seed Funding for AI Expert Knowledge Replication
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 brings the company’s total funding to $5.35 million since its inception in 2023.
Funding Round Details
The seed funding round includes investments from Congruent Ventures as the lead, alongside First In, Overline, Bull City Venture Partners, and St. Elmo Venture Capital, the investment arm of Texas Area Telecom. Cloneable uses AI to shadow human experts in heavy industries such as energy and replicate their specialized workflows into autonomous agents.
Company Origins and Inspiration
Cloneable’s co-founders, Lia Reich, Tyler Collins, and Patrick Lohman, previously worked at drone company PrecisionHawk and encountered a bottleneck during the 2019 California wildfires. They deployed 150 drone pilots to survey thousands of miles of transmission lines, but data review required hundreds of workers manually scrubbing footage, with only a few experts knowing what to look for, as Reich, the CEO, described.
Technology and Applications
The startup addresses a ‘knowledge crisis’ in industries like energy, oil and gas, and agriculture, where experienced workers retire faster than they can be replaced, according to Reich. Cloneable launched its Cloneable Field product for automated infrastructure inspection in February 2025 and is now introducing an agentic product that codifies expert knowledge into scalable AI agents. The company claims that tasks like structural calculations for utility poles, which take a human engineer eight hours, can be completed by a Cloneable agent in under two minutes, allowing one engineer to process 4,500 to 5,500 poles annually compared to 2 million to 3 million by the AI.
Expansion and Growth
With the funding, Cloneable plans to expand into industries such as public utilities, vegetation management, construction, rail, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. The company has grown its annual recurring revenue (ARR) 100x between February and the end of 2025 and counts customers like 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. Cloneable’s platform shadows experts by capturing audio and documentation in real time to create AI agents, differentiating itself through proprietary data from a decade of experience in these sectors.
