Australian industrial AI startup Syncrowin has raised $3 million in a pre-Seed round to help factories and energy businesses reduce breakdowns, waste and production delays.
The round was led by New York’s Collide Capital, with participation from Hustle Fund, POV Ventures, Australia’s Co-Ventures and Ventari, alongside angel investors.
Syncrowin pulls together data from machinery, sensors, maintenance records and business software, then uses AI to identify problems and recommend fixes. It can also combine readings such as temperature, pressure and vibration with maintenance logs, giving operators a clearer picture of where equipment is underperforming and what needs attention first.
The platform can flag a pump that is slowing production and suggest replacing a filter. The aim is to help operators keep equipment running and produce more with the assets they already own.
The funding will support further development and deployment across energy and manufacturing, as well as expanding its AI and engineering teams in Australia and San Francisco.
Cofounder and CEO Aisshwarya (Ash) Kansakaar said the opportunity was to improve infrastructure already in use.
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“The world is spending trillions planning new industrial capacity, but a significant portion of what we need already exists, it’s just not running intelligently,” she said.
She’s overseen the largest pre-Seed round for a female founder in 2026.
Her cofounder is chief technology officer Jaideep Upadhyay. The pair have engineering backgrounds spanning mechatronics, mechanical and industrial systems, and AI.
“The last era of industry was defined by deploying physical assets at extraordinary scale. We believe the next will be defined by the intelligence layered across them and over time, that intelligence becomes as fundamental as the assets themselves,” Upadhyay said.
Collide Capital managing partner Aaron Samuels said the experience the founders had swayed their investment.
“Ash and Jai have spent their careers inside the industrial sites and plants they’re now trying to transform, and that shows up in how they build. We’re excited to lead this round,” he said.
Syncrowin recently won the Initiate startup pitch competition at the DTECH energy conference in San Diego. It has also been selected for the Energy Labs Scale Up program and previously received support from the University of Melbourne’s MAP Accelerator.
Kansakaar, Victoria’s 2025 Young Australian of the Year, grew up in Nepal, where unreliable electricity shaped her interest in infrastructure.