Cerrion, the Swiss-founded AI video agent platform that identifies and resolves production line issues in real time, has secured $18 million in Series A funding to accelerate its expansion and scaling efforts in the US and Europe. The funding round was led by Creandum, with participation from existing investors Y Combinator, Goat Capital, 10x Founders, and Session VC, along with notable angel investors such as Harry Stebbings (20VC), Oskar Hjertonsson, Thomas Wolf (Hugging Face), and Garret Langley (Flock Safety). Factory downtime costs the global manufacturing industry approximately $1. 4 trillion annually, and with rising energy prices coupled with more complex supply chains, these related expenses have surged by 319 percent since 2019. Cerrion tackles this challenge through AI video agents that monitor factory operations beyond what workers can directly see.

These agents assist operators by detecting and responding to process deviations, quality problems, and safety hazards in real time, triggering alerts, slowing or stopping machinery, and notifying the appropriate personnel as necessary. This blend of automated intervention and human oversight enables manufacturers to address issues up to 50 percent faster, cutting downtime and scrap losses by as much as half. Emerging quickly as a vital provider of AI-powered automation, safety, and efficiency solutions for manufacturing, Cerrion’s platform is already deployed in active production at firms such as Unilever, Riedel, Schott Zwiesel, Stölzle Lausitz, Sisecam, and Verallia. These span industries including glass, food, timber, and consumer packaged goods (CPG), supplying major global brands like Pepsi, Coca-Cola, Pfizer, and Novartis. Customers often scale their use rapidly post-deployment, frequently expanding from single-site pilots to full company-wide rollouts within months after witnessing results. “Global manufacturers face ever-increasing pressure from unplanned downtime and escalating operational costs, driving unprecedented demand for solutions that address these challenges, ” said Karim Saleh, Co-founder and CEO of Cerrion. With a team sourced from top institutions such as ETH Zurich, Google, and EPFL, Cerrion intends to use the new capital to double its workforce in Europe and the US and to evolve its platform beyond video vision to encompass a broader range of manufacturing processes and clients.