Continuous fluid analysis for AI data centers and industrial machines - spectroscopic sensors that read equipment health from its coolant, oil and water in real time.
Omen AI sells a 'blood test' for the machines powering the AI buildout: tiny spectrometers that attach to a fluid loop - chip coolant, HVAC water, engine oil - and read equipment health continuously instead of the industry's mail-a-sample-and-wait-days workflow. The urgent use case is liquid-cooled AI data centers, where operators running chips hotter dilute the biocide mix and get bacterial outbreaks that clog cooling loops; a flush can take a rack down for five or six hours at a cost of millions. Founded in 2024 by Zach Laberge - who started his first sensor company at 14 in Nova Scotia, raised $3M for construction-equipment telematics, and dropped out of high school - Omen began on heavy machinery through Caterpillar dealerships, then pivoted when those dealers' turbine work exposed how much unmonitored fluid sits inside data centers. It raised a $10.5M CRV-led seed in October 2025 and a $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures in June 2026 ($41.5M total), with Sheryl Sandberg, Mann+Hummel and executives from Bridgestone, GM, Johnson Controls and customer TensorWave participating.
AI📍 San Francisco, CAFounded 2024
Current Valuation
Private
PRIVATE
IPO Outlookprivate
Is Omen AI going public?
No. Omen AI is private and has not filed to go public. There is no S-1 on file.
What is Omen AI's valuation in 2026?
No confirmed valuation is on record for Omen AI. The roster shows funding and investors where they are public; it does not estimate a mark.
Has Omen AI filed an S-1?
No public S-1 is on file for Omen AI.
Who are Omen AI's investors?
Omen AI's investors include Nava Ventures, CRV, Sheryl Sandberg, Vanderbilt University, Mann+Hummel, LMNT Ventures and 6 more.
How much has Omen AI raised?
Omen AI has raised $41.5M in total across 3 disclosed rounds, most recently a Series A of $31M in Jun 2026.
Is Omen AI publicly traded — can you buy Omen AI stock?
No. Omen AI is a private company — its shares are not listed on any exchange and there is no ticker. The routes to exposure are pre-IPO secondary marketplaces and funds (accredited investors), employee tender offers when the company runs one, and public companies with read-through exposure. QuantLogix maps every route it can verify for Omen AI on its Pre-IPO Access Desk.
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Company Profile
CEO
Zach Laberge
Founded
2024
HQ
San Francisco, CA
Employees
30
Total Raised
$41.5M
Growth
From industrial-machinery seed (Oct 2025) to a $31M data-center Series A in eight months; sensors deployed across data centers operating 10-14 GW of capacity (~$200B in assets) and industrial fleets with 2M+ machines; 12+ customers, mostly neoclouds, with larger clouds starting
Last Round
Series A — $31M (Jun 2026) · Lead: Nava Ventures
IPO Status
private
Fundraising Status
Series A · $31M · 3 mo ago
privateTotal raised $41.5M3 disclosed rounds
Growth & Valuation
Capital raised per round
Charts built from publicly disclosed funding rounds and revenue estimates. Approximate, not real-time, not investment advice.
Funding History
Round
Amount
Date
Lead Investor
Post-Money
Series A
$31M
Jun 2026
Nava Ventures
—
Seed
$10.5M
Oct 2025
CRV
—
Pre-seed
—
Jan 2024
—
—
Vertical Intelligence — AI / ML
No verified Hugging Face organization found for Omen AI — no attributable open-model footprint. Closed-weights labs are common; this is a distribution signal, not a capability judgment.
Checked huggingface.co as of 2026-09-19. Re-checked weekly.
Talent Signal
Hiring trend
▼ Hiring downtrend
-25% vs 2026-08
Open roles
3
via greenhouse
Product-build share
67%
engineering, research, product, design
Trajectory
tightening
heavy product build — 67% of open roles are product-building functions (engineering/research/product) — 1 of 3 open roles are finance.
Open roles trending down; no tracked executive churn.
Open roles by month
Open roles by function
■ product-building ■ go-to-market / G&A
Lab ManagerSenior R&D EngineerFP&A Lead
Counted from Omen AI's live job board as of 2026-09-14; role functions classified from posting titles. Open-role counts are an activity signal, not headcount. Refreshed monthly.
Founders & Key People
Zach Laberge
Investors
Nava Ventures · CRV · Sheryl Sandberg · Vanderbilt University · Mann+Hummel · LMNT Ventures · Borusan Ventures · Starhill Holdings · Hard Launch Capital · Caffeinated Capital · Genius Ventures · Mike Mattacola
Products
Permanent inline sensor - one-time non-invasive install on a machine's fluid loop; continuously tracks metal content, bio-contamination, wear patterns and fluid degradation
Portable diagnostic unit - the same spectroscopic analysis in a field-service form factor for on-site diagnosis
Both form factors analyze 21+ elemental signatures simultaneously (copper/chromium flag pump wear, silicon flags seal wear, bacterial growth flags coolant contamination)
Subscription pricing per megawatt for data-center deployments
Competitors
Pyxis Lab · Mail-in fluid-analysis laboratories (the sample-and-wait incumbent workflow)
AIData Center InfrastructureIndustrial IoTHardwareSensorsPredictive MaintenanceLiquid Cooling
Private-company numbers are not real-time. Reflects publicly disclosed valuations from press releases, news reports, and tender offers as of recent date. Refreshed quarterly.