Cloneable Raises $4.6M Seed to Capture and Deploy Expert Knowledge Across Infrastructure Workflows
Automation gets pitched like magic. In infrastructure, it feels more like memory loss prevention. The kind that hits when the most experienced operator walks off the job and takes 10 years of judgment with them.
Out of Raleigh, North Carolina, Cloneable just pulled in $4.6M in seed funding, led by Congruent Ventures with First In, Overline, Bull City Venture Partners, and St. Elmo Venture Capital all leaning in. Not a vanity round. More like a calculated bet on who owns expertise when the experts aren’t around.
Patrick Lohman, Founder and CEO, alongside Co-Founder and CTO Tyler Collins and Co-Founder Lia Reich, didn’t come up with this in a conference room playing startup Mad Libs. This was forged in the field at PrecisionHawk, staring down miles of infrastructure and realizing the real constraint wasn’t hardware or data. It was judgment. The kind that lives in someone’s head after 10 years on the job and disappears the second they clock out for good.
Cloneable leans into that gap with a different angle. Not just automation, but replication. Their platform captures how experts think, how they decide, how they move through messy, high-stakes workflows, then deploys that as agents operating in the field. Drones, tablets, IoT devices, whatever gets the job done. Less “software tool,” more a digital extension of experience that doesn’t get tired, distracted, or retired.
The market backdrop is doing half the storytelling. Utilities, telecom, agriculture, infrastructure across the board are staring at a talent cliff while demand keeps climbing. Cloneable finds its lane right where spreadsheets and point solutions start breaking down. That’s how you clock reported 100x ARR growth in a year without making a lot of noise about it, building on an earlier $750K pre-seed that set the foundation before this $4.6M move.
The funding fuels more than growth. It sharpens a thesis. Smaller, domain-tuned models over bloated general ones. Field-to-office workflows that actually connect instead of pretending to. Automation that respects complexity instead of dumbing it down for a demo.
The interesting shift sits underneath the headline. Capital is moving toward companies that don’t just collect data, but carry forward the decision-making behind it. Cloneable is working that seam, where infrastructure meets intelligence and experience stops being tribal knowledge and starts becoming something you can actually deploy.
