Copia Automation Raises $26M in Funding Led by AE Ventures

The round also saw participation from KAS Venture Partners, Construct Capital, Lux Capital, Ironspring Ventures, and Renegade Partners.

The company plans to use the funds to speed up product development, support deployments across cloud, customer-managed data centers, and air-gapped environments, and strengthen teams focused on OT incident response.

Copia was founded on the idea that the code controlling the physical world should have the same level of discipline and governance as software has had for years.

Manufacturing is returning to the United States, and critical infrastructure is being expanded and modernized. At the same time, new industrial facilities are coming online to support this growth.

Industrial devices like programmable logic controllers (PLCs) are essential because they automate the physical world and keep these systems running. However, traditional IT security software cannot run on or protect these devices, since each PLC vendor uses its own proprietary tools—similar to how Windows software does not run on macOS. As a result, the reliability of modern infrastructure depends heavily on how well this industrial code is managed, versioned, and protected.

The risks are increasing as cyber threats continue to grow. Attacks targeting industrial devices are becoming more common with adversaries focusing on the controllers that run critical infrastructure systems.

The teams managing these automation devices often lack the tools that IT teams rely on, such as validated backups, version control and AI powered development tools, making it harder for them to recover and protect their systems.

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"The most critical code in the world has been managed with the least support, and that no longer holds in an economy being rebuilt on automation," said Adam Gluck, founder and CEO of Copia Automation. "This is about the readiness and resilience of the infrastructure modern industry depends on, making sure that when something goes wrong, teams can recover quickly and maintain uptime. This funding lets us continue building the platform that makes that possible."

"Copia has built the category defining platform for industrial code management at exactly the moment the market needs it most," said Tyler Rowe, Partner at AE Ventures the venture capital platform of AE Industrial Partners, LP. "As manufacturers modernize legacy infrastructure, reshore production and face a rapidly evolving cyber threat landscape, industrial code is becoming a strategic asset that must be governed with the same rigor as enterprise software.

"Cybersecurity has come a long way, but critical infrastructure remains one of the most vulnerable and under-addressed attack surfaces," said Squadra Ventures Managing Partner Guy Filippelli. "It has never been more important to safeguard the industrial control systems that keep our society running, and Copia has the vision and execution tenacity to do it. Adam and team have demonstrated unmatched hustle and ability to innovate at the point where physical meets digital."

About Copia Automation

Founded in 2020 by Adam Gluck and Matthew Lee, Copia Automation provides visibility, traceability, and control across the full automation lifecycle. It helps industrial teams improve uptime, strengthen governance and build more resilient operations. The platform serves everyone from OT teams on the plant floor to executives responsible for cybersecurity and compliance. Copia gives organizations a single system to manage, secure and recover the industrial code that powers the physical economy.

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