Arrakis

Industrial AI · Agentic AI

Funding

Arrakis raises $38M to bring AI agents to factories and aerospace

Its founders are betting the real AI payoff lies with the 70% of workers running physical operations, not desk jobs.

• Arrakis emerged from stealth with $38M in total funding, including a $30M Series A led by Blossom Capital, valuing the company at $140M post-money.
• The London- and Paris-based startup builds an AI 'operating system' for industrial firms, sending forward-deployed AI engineers to embed agents into aerospace, energy, logistics and manufacturing workflows.
• Arrakis takes a model-agnostic approach, starting with commercial models from OpenAI and Anthropic before shifting workloads to open-source options like Mistral, claiming 2-4x better output and about 70% lower token costs.
• Roughly half of Arrakis's fees are tied to performance targets, and it says it already has five paying customers, including NYSE-listed firms, with one client cutting procurement cycle times by 90%.
• Founded in January 2026 by ex-Accel VP Rafael Quintanilla with Palantir alumni Haroun Beltaifa and Romain Fouilland and former Delivery Hero engineer Mikhail Galkov, the round drew personal backing from Datadog CEO Olivier Pomel and OpenAI's Olivier Godement.
• Arrakis is wagering that industrial operations, not office productivity software, hold AI's biggest untapped upside, putting it in direct competition with Palantir, Accenture and BCG's own industrial AI pushes.