CADDi raises $114 million to expand manufacturing AI platform

CADDi has raised $114 million in Series D funding from eight new and existing investors, lifting the global manufacturing-software company’s total funding to $234 million as it moves into full-scale U.S. expansion.

Participating investors included Moore Strategic Ventures, Coreline Ventures and Atomico. The announcement did not disclose the round’s valuation, revenue, customer count or timetable for deploying the money.

CADDi says the proceeds will fund four areas:

• Develop proprietary AI and technology.
• Expand the CADDi Manufacturing AI Data Platform.
• Enhance global business operations centered on North America.
• Invest in talent acquisition and development.

What does the funding change for manufacturers?

For manufacturers, the near-term change is a larger U.S. product rollout and more development behind a common manufacturing data layer, a structured representation of data meaning, relationships and constraints. It is not yet evidence of higher output, shorter cycle times or lower costs; the announcement includes no customer results.

CADDi develops the CADDi Manufacturing AI Data Platform, designed as an operating system for factories that links engineering, procurement, production and quality through shared semantics. The company says this lets people and AI workflows use the same information without manual handoffs.

CEO Yushiro Kato said the key to realizing AI’s benefits lies in shifting manufacturing from sequential execution to parallel processing, with people and AI drawing on the same context across departments. General-purpose AI cannot adequately address manufacturing’s complex semantics, relationships and constraints, he said.

CADDi is therefore building domain-specific vertical AI, meaning AI purpose-built for manufacturing, that maps data semantics. The investment will support that work alongside platform expansion, North American operations and talent development.

Ken Hara, partner at Coreline Ventures, said: “AI only delivers where a data layer and a semantic layer already exist. In manufacturing, that layer is buried in information fragmented across departments and in records that were never digitized at all, which is why horizontal tooling never reaches it.” Here, horizontal tooling means general-purpose software.

Hara said CADDi has spent four years building the layer, with some of the world’s most demanding manufacturers as its first customers. He said knowledge held in individual experience is becoming an organizational asset and, eventually, an industry resource.

Atomico partner Luca Eisenstecken said the firm backed CADDi 18 months earlier because it saw potential for a defining AI company in manufacturing, and that his conviction had grown since. He described CADDi’s move from individual workflows to an intelligence layer for the entire manufacturing life cycle.

That platform connects engineering, procurement, production and quality through a shared semantic foundation. Eisenstecken said AI agents receive context to reason across decades of fragmented manufacturing knowledge.

“At our CADDi Unleash 2026 event, we presented a renewed vision: to overcome physical limits and accelerate physical innovation tenfold. That is our priority from here on, and this commitment is what guided both our recent product rebrand and the development of new products we are bringing to the U.S. customers,” Kato said.

CADDi announced its next-generation Manufacturing AI Data Platform in Japan in August, positioning it as the foundation for a global product release.

CADDi Explorer is a manufacturing discovery engine and the next-generation version of CADDi Drawer. CADDi Agent is a new AI agent, or software that analyzes manufacturing data, makes decisions and takes action within each company’s operating context.

The company also plans six domain-specific workflow products spanning the manufacturing value chain, aimed at better decision-making and execution in business-critical operations.

The official U.S. launch marks full-scale expansion into the world’s second-largest manufacturing market. CADDi is also one of several manufacturing-software suppliers exhibiting at The ASSEMBLY Show this week.

The $114 million receipt and $234 million total are disclosed financial facts. By contrast, claims that the platform can connect departments, reason across decades of knowledge and accelerate physical innovation tenfold remain assertions from CADDi and its investors. The announcement names no customers, deployment volumes, measured cycle-time gains or pricing.

Watch next for CADDi’s dated global and U.S. release schedule, named customer deployments and quantified gains in engineering, procurement, production and quality. The announcement gives no U.S. go-live date, customer count or measured operating result, so the $114 million funds expansion, not proof of manufacturing performance.