GitHub for the factory floor: Copia raises $26M to protect the code that runs industry

Ask an industrial engineer how their plant would recover if a controller’s code got corrupted or encrypted, and the honest answer is often grim: a backup on someone’s laptop, in a folder named “final_backup_2”.

Copia Automation wants to replace that with something closer to how software teams work.

The New York startup has raised $26mn to build version control, backups and recovery for the code that runs factories and infrastructure. The round, co-led by AE Ventures and Squadra Ventures, takes its total raised to $55mn.

The code that runs the physical world

Modern plants run on programmable logic controllers, or PLCs, the small computers that drive machinery and production lines. The catch is that ordinary IT software cannot protect them.

Each vendor, Rockwell, Siemens, Schneider, uses its own proprietary tooling, much as Windows software will not run on a Mac.

So the discipline software teams take for granted, version history,...

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