Montreal, Quebec — Assembler AI, a computer vision company, today announced the close of a $4 million seed funding round. The company will use the proceeds of the round to accelerate its growth across North American manufacturers. Diagram ClimateTech Fund led the round with support from several well-established players, including Drive Capital, Fondaction, Developer Capital, Mavrik, Sprout Fund, and Telegraph Ventures. With funding in place, the company is now expanding beyond its limited pre-launch customer set and taking AI-driven computer vision technologies to market.
“In venture capital, ‘Why now?’ is always an important question to ask,” said Jordan Steiner, CEO of Developer Capital. “With Assembler, the ‘why now’ is obvious. This has been a need for the manufacturing industry for decades. Now, AI technology has finally caught up, and Assembler has built a system that is ready to be deployed. We believe Brett and the rest of the Assembler team will be the ones to execute on this opportunity and win the market.”
“We are very pleased to be able to realize our vision for Assembler AI through this funding round,” said Brett Beranek, CEO of Assembler AI. “Our solutions solve a number of problems for manufacturers who rely on manual processes. We help them improve quality outcomes and close the critical gap between plant capacity and actual output, which currently sits at 76% in the United States.”
“Recent advances in computer vision opened up a new way to tackle one of manufacturing’s most persistent challenges: improving quality and efficiency in work done by hand,” said Amélie Foz-Couture, General Partner and Co-Head, Diagram ClimateTech Fund. “Catching mistakes earlier can prevent valuable materials from becoming scrap. We’re excited to back Brett and the team as they bring to market a solution that lowers costs, improves throughput, and delivers meaningful climate impact in a sector whose materials contribute significantly to global GHG emissions.”
Assembler AI is a computer vision company with a singular focus on assisting operators and continuous improvement engineers in manufacturing. Operator Vision by Assembler AI captures every action at a manual station and flags cycle time deviations, quality deviations, and the actions that put production at risk. The operator gets guidance in real time. Engineering gets visibility across every station and every shift.
The company’s founding team has a passion for applying AI for good, in real-world applications that deliver tangible value. CEO Brett Beranek has spent 25 years building and scaling AI companies from nothing. After starting his career in computer vision, he scaled Genetec’s video AI business, founded and exited Viion, a facial recognition company, and then scaled Nuance’s voice AI division until it was acquired by Microsoft. Jonayed Islam, Head of Product, spent years as a strategy consultant to large manufacturers before founding and scaling his video production agency and launching JetScale AI at Diagram Ventures. Artem Pilzak, Head of AI, is a published PhD whose research is on computer vision generalization, which is precisely the problem that makes this product possible. Stephan Lefrancois, Head of Engineering, has spent over two decades building and scaling engineering teams across telecom, enterprise software, and security.
You can read the full press release here: Assembler AI Closes $4 Million Seed Round