A letter from the founder and CEO, Adam Gluck.
Today we’re announcing that Copia Automation has raised $26 million in additional funding, co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures. KAS Venture Partners participated, with continued support from our existing investors Construct Capital, Lux Capital, Ironspring Ventures, and Renegade Partners.
We started Copia because we saw something that didn’t make sense. The PLC code running the power grids, data centers, factories, and countless other critical operations had none of the protections software developers had relied on for decades: no version control, no structured backups, no audit trail, no collaboration tools. IT had mature disaster recovery. OT’s most vital asset, its automation code, was left exposed. That wasn’t just an engineering problem. It was a vulnerability at the foundation of the automation the industrial economy depends on, and we set out to close it.
Why now
Something significant is happening in American industry. Manufacturing is coming back, critical infrastructure is being modernized and expanded, and new facilities are being built. The reindustrialization of the U.S. and allied economies is underway, and it’s being built on automation. The PLC code inside these environments governs how production lines behave, how utilities operate, and how critical systems recover after an incident. The resilience of everything being built depends on how well that code is governed, versioned, and protected.
Yet the teams responsible for it have been forced into a reactive posture, holding the plant together with manual processes, scattered folders, and tribal knowledge, with little room for anything beyond keeping production moving day to day. That gap has persisted not for lack of need, but because no one had built the right solution for it.
What were building
The work rests on a conviction that has only sharpened with time: operational resilience and cyber resilience are not two problems but one. When a production line halts and when it’s compromised, the opening questions are identical. What changed, when, and does it account for what we are seeing? A line producing scrap and a line that has been tampered with call for the same investigation, distinguished only by how the findings are framed.
We are building toward that conviction in three parts. The foundation, and where we are strongest today, is the system of record: intelligent change detection and automated backups that form the highest-fidelity account of what is actually running on every device. On that foundation we are expanding the modern controls engineering toolset, one that makes change on the plant floor as routine, and as safe, as shipping code is for a software team. And it points toward the capability we are most energized to build: agentic AI, an agent present at every site, fluent in your controls code, that lifts the maintenance burden off your team and recovers from incidents on its own, at global scale.
Where this goes
Carried to its conclusion, this is the idea we return to again and again: the self-healing industrial controls environment. A controller drifts from its baseline. The agent detects the change, validates it against the known-good state, and resolves the routine cases on its own, while anything consequential comes to an engineer with the analysis already done and a clear recommendation to approve. OT teams are freed from the constant fire drills without being removed from the decisions that carry real weight. Downtime becomes a rare exception rather than a cost of doing business.
None of these capabilities remains confined to OT. The disciplines, the tooling, and increasingly the threats are drawing the plant floor and the data center into the same world, and the wall between OT and IT is coming down. We are building Copia for the far side of that convergence: one platform, one source of truth, for the code that runs the physical economy.
When we started, I wanted to bring DevOps to manufacturing. That vision hasn’t changed, but our language has matured alongside our customers. This was never only about controls-team efficiency. It’s about giving the people who run the world’s most critical facilities the most powerful technology available.
Thank you to our customers, our investors, our partners, and our team.
Adam Gluck CEO & Founder, Copia Automation
