$26m will help to manage industrial code effectively in emergencies
17 June 2026 
A US specialist in industrial code management has raised $26m to bring modern code management and recovery capabilities to OT (operational technology) teams for them to use in the event of cyberattacks or downtime. The new funding brings the total raised by New-York-based Copia Automation so far to $55m.
Copia will use the funding to accelerate product development, support flexible deployments ranging from the cloud to customer-managed data centres and air-gapped environments, and to back OT incident response teams.
The software traditionally used to protect IT business systems cannot run on, or safeguard, devices such as PLCs, because every PLC vendor uses its own proprietary code. The resilience of everything produced using such devices depends on how well that code is governed, versioned and protected.
Copia says that the increasing numbers of attacks on controllers used to run critical infrastructure are raising the stakes. Teams responding to such incidents are not equipped to manage the device code because they do not have the essential recovery tools that their IT counterparts take for granted – such as validated backups, version control, and mIT recently, AI-powered coding tools.
Copia was founded on the idea that the code running the physical world deserves the same discipline and governance that commercial software has relied on for almost two decades. With the new investment, the company plans to build towards a single platform that industrial organisations will be able to use to protect, govern and evolve critical automation code.
“The most critical code in the world has been managed with the least support, and that no longer holds in an economy being rebuilt on automation,” says Copia’s founder and CEO, Adam Gluck. “This is about the readiness and resilience of the infrastructure modern industry depends on, making sure that when something goes wrong, teams can recover quickly and maintain uptime. This funding lets us continue building the platform that makes that possible.”
One of Copia’s most recent products is a package called Copia Actions that automates traditionally manual activities such as backup verification, library version audits, code reviews, compliance reporting, and the testing of PLCs, HMIs and robot controllers. Workflows are defined in simple files that live alongside controller code and use YAML – a human-readable data serialisation language. They are triggered by events such as code changes, scheduled times or DeviceLink backups.
Copia Actions has been purpose-built for PLC, HMI and robot controller code, and can be configured to the standards an organisation has always intended to enforce. As those standards evolve, the platform will evolve with them. As new vendors, threats and compliance requirements emerge, workflows built today will keep running and new ones will run alongside them.
“Copia has built the category-defining platform for industrial code management at exactly the moment the market needs it most,” says Tyler Rowe, partner at one of Copia’s new investors, AE Ventures. “As manufacturers modernise legacy infrastructure, reshore production, and face a rapidly evolving cyberthreat landscape, industrial code is becoming a strategic asset that must be governed with the same rigor as enterprise software.
“In sectors like aerospace, defence, energy and critical infrastructure, traceability, security, and recovery are no longer optional. We’re excited to co-lead this financing and support Copia as it becomes the system of record for the world’s most critical industrial operations.”
“Cybersecurity has come a long way, but critical infrastructure remains one of the most vulnerable and under-addressed attack surfaces,” adds Guy Filippelli, managing partner of another investor, Squadra Ventures. “It has never been more important to safeguard the industrial control systems that keep our society running, and Copia has the vision and execution tenacity to do it. Adam and team have demonstrated unmatched hustle and ability to innovate at the point where physical meets digital.”
