Cloneable, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based startup founded in 2023, 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, as it focuses on using AI to replicate expert workflows in heavy industries such as energy.
Funding Details
The seed round was announced exclusively to Crunchbase News and will support Cloneable’s expansion into sectors like public utilities, vegetation management, construction, rail, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing. Cloneable’s co-founders, Lia Reich, Tyler Collins, and Patrick Lohman, previously worked at drone company PrecisionHawk and identified the need for this technology during 2019 California wildfires, where they deployed 150 drone pilots to inspect infrastructure but faced scalability issues in data review.
Company Origins and Mission
Cloneable aims to address a ‘knowledge crisis’ in heavy industries, where experienced workers are retiring faster than they can be replaced, as noted by CEO Lia Reich. The startup launched Cloneable Field in February 2025 for automated infrastructure inspection in the energy sector and is now introducing an agentic product to codify expert knowledge into scalable AI agents. According to Crunchbase News, the company has grown its annual recurring revenue 100x between February and the end of 2025, serving customers such as American Electric Power, Southern California Edison, and Perdue.
Product and Expansion Plans
Cloneable’s platform shadows experts to capture their workflows, such as turning a utility-pole design process that takes a human engineer eight hours into one completed by an AI agent in under two minutes. The company claims this could enable a single engineer to process 4,500 to 5,500 poles annually, while its agent handles 2 million to 3 million, potentially freeing up labor costs of $115,000 to $312,000 per year for a mid-size firm. This funding will help expand into underserved markets, as detailed in the Crunchbase News report.
