Arrakis has emerged from stealth with $30 million in Series A funding as it seeks to push artificial intelligence agents deeper into industrial operations, a bet that investors say could unlock far more value than office-based automation.
The round was led by Blossom Capital, with support from existing backer Accel. Including its earlier $7.5 million seed financing, which Accel also led, the London- and Paris-based start-up says it has now raised about $38 million in total. Amo...
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ng the individual investors are Datadog chief executive Olivier Pomel, OpenAI’s head of business products Olivier Godement and Cambridge Aerospace founder Junaid Hussein.
Founded in January 2026 by chief executive Rafael Quintanilla alongside Haroun Beltaifa, Romain Fouilland and Mikhail Galkov, Arrakis is targeting industries still burdened by legacy software, fragmented data and manual workflows. Rather than asking customers to rip out existing systems, the company says it layers AI agents on top of current operational environments so they can be deployed more quickly in areas such as aerospace, energy, logistics, manufacturing, construction and telecommunications.
According to Fortune, the start-up is pitching itself as an AI “operating system” for industrial firms, while Dealroom noted that its commercial model is based on value, with fees linked to results rather than simple usage or seat counts. Arrakis also says customers keep ownership of their data and intellectual property, and that it does not use client information to train third-party models.
The company claims early deployments have delivered results within weeks, including a 90% reduction in procurement cycle times and better real-time visibility into processes that were previously handled by hand. It says it has already signed publicly listed customers in energy, logistics and industrial sectors, as well as its first client in the United States.
Blossom Capital’s Ophelia Brown said the team combined technical depth with operational experience and commercial ambition, while Accel partner Sonali De Rycker said the founders had a strong grasp of how AI could reshape the physical economy. Quintanilla has framed the business as part of a broader push to reindustrialise the West, arguing that the biggest gains from AI will come not from desk-based work, but from the operations that keep factories, supply chains and infrastructure running.
Arrakis plans to use the new capital to triple headcount, strengthen security and broaden its platform, with expansion planned across Europe, the United States and the Middle East. The company says its model-agnostic approach will allow customers to use different AI systems for different tasks, rather than tying themselves to a single provider.
Source: Noah Wire Services
