Cloneable Raises $4.6M in Seed Funding Led by Congruent Ventures
Apr 24, 2026 | By Startuprise io

Cloneable, a Raleigh, NC-based AI automation company focused on infrastructure operations, has raised $4.6 million in a Seed funding round led by Congruent Ventures, with participation from First In, Overline, St. Elmo Venture Capital, and Bull City Venture Partners.
The company plans to use the funds to expand into infrastructure-intensive industries such as public utilities, energy, construction, rail, mining, agriculture, and manufacturing.
Cloneable Agent turns back-office workflows into AI agents that can copy expert work at scale by learning from the tools teams already use. At launch, it includes ready-made templates for energy tasks like engineering, permitting, and joint use, delivering results in as little as 24 hours.
The founding team spent over a decade working in the commercial drone industry, gaining hands-on experience with agriculture, utilities, and large enterprise systems. This background gives Cloneable a strong advantage, with a deep understanding of how expert knowledge flows through organizations and where it often breaks down.
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Cloneable launched its field platform in 2025, helping streamline tasks like pole inspections and improve safety, speed, and data quality. It is now used by many customers, including utilities, internet providers, engineering firms and agribusinesses. With the addition of the Cloneable Agent, the platform now supports workflows from the field to the back office.
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“We’re asking aging infrastructure to carry a modern economy and we are still managing it with fragmented tools and tribal knowledge. That gap has a real cost. What Cloneable has built from field capture through back office execution, is the kind of operational continuity this industry has needed for a long time.” Tate Stricklin, CEO, Texas Area Telecom
"Everyone's watching AI reshape office work. We're watching something quieter and more consequential. The engineers who run America's grid, its telecom networks, and its construction projects are retiring, and what they know is retiring with them. That knowledge was built over 30-year careers, living in the heads of the best people in the room. Cloneable exists because that expertise is too valuable to lose, and because we finally have the technology to deploy it at a scale these industries have never seen." Lia Reich, Co-Founder and CEO, Cloneable
“The $30T US economy relies on infrastructure that's aging faster than we can maintain it. The real bottleneck isn't just dollars, it's decades of uncaptured industrial knowledge. The result is infrastructure that never gets built, grids that never get hardened, and an industrial base that never gets modernized. Born from a decade of lived experience in industrial data capture, Cloneable's vertical AI agents represent a fundamentally new category to manage our most fundamental industries.” Eliza Cushman, Partner, Congruent Ventures
About Cloneable
Founded in 2023, by Lia Reich, Cloneable builds AI tools for infrastructure operations. It automates complex workflows from the field to the office by capturing expert knowledge, and turning it into AI agents for heavy industry tasks.
About Congruent Ventures
Founded in 2017, by Abe Yokell and Joshua Posamentier, Congruent Ventures is an early stage investor focused on climate, and sustainability. It backs companies across sectors such as energy, mobility agriculture and sustainable production. The firm manages over $1 billion in assets and has invested in 59 companies, making it one of the most active climate tech investors.
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