Eighty percent of enterprise AI projects fail when faced with complex, unstructured technical data—wiring diagrams, maintenance manuals, and live system logs that power manufacturing and heavy industry. German AI startup Octonomy raised $20 million in seed funding to tackle this infrastructure bottleneck with agentic AI systems that understand, reason, and execute across diverse technical documentation where traditional chatbots falter.

The round, led by Macquarie Capital with participation from Capnamic, NRW.Bank, and TechVision Fund, brings Octonomy’s total funding to $25 million since its founding just 15 months ago. The company now employs 70 people across Cologne and Denver, having scaled rapidly from the growing enterprise demand for AI that actually works on complex technical processes.