Innovapptive
Houston, US · Founded 2018 · 330 employees on LinkedIn · 4 known investors
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Innovapptive provides a platform for frontline-first digital transformation in industrial enterprises, connecting operational intelligence with real-time worker execution to reduce latency and improve productivity. The platform serves manufacturing and industrial operations companies across multiple functional areas including maintenance, warehousing, and continuous improvement.
Also known as Innovapptive Inc. · Innovapptive, Inc.
Founders & leadership
Innovapptive was founded in 2018 by Sundeep Ravande.

Investors · 4
Funding
SEC filings, press & company announcements$53.6M disclosed across 5 of 6 rounds · 2016–2025
- Undisclosed amountSeries CAug 2025Source ↗
▶$26MraisedMay 2023 · 2 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Sundeep RavandeExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $26M
- Amount sold
- $26M
- Proceeds to insiders
- $3.5M
- First sale
- Apr 2023
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Delaware, 2019
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$3.5MraisedJun 2022 · 1 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Sundeep RavandeExecutive Officer, Director
- Hari KamineniExecutive Officer
- Perry TurbesDirector
- Sashidhar NarahariDirector
- Mark BouzekDirector
- Srikarthik PrabhukumarExecutive Officer
- B.V.R. ReddyDirector
- Offering amount
- $3.9M
- Amount sold
- $3.5M
- First sale
- May 2022
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Texas, 2019
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$5.7MraisedMay 2021 · 4 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Sundeep RavandeExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $5.7M
- Amount sold
- $5.7M
- First sale
- Apr 2021
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Texas, 2018
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$16.3MraisedApr 2019 · 1 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Sundeep RavandeExecutive Officer, Director
- Hari KamineniExecutive Officer, Director
- Srikarthik PrabhukumarExecutive Officer, Director
- Offering amount
- $16.3M
- Amount sold
- $16.3M
- First sale
- Apr 2019
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Texas, 2018
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
▶$2.1MraisedJun 2018 · 57 investors · Other TechnologyRule 506(b)
- Poorna UppalaDirector
- Hari KamineniExecutive Officer, Director
- Sundeep Vijay RavandeExecutive Officer, Director
- Srikarthik PrabhukumarExecutive Officer, Director
- Kishore GanjiDirector
- Offering amount
- $3.3M
- Amount sold
- $2.1M
- First sale
- May 2016
- Incorporated
- Corporation, Texas, 2018
- Federal exemptions
- 06b
Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.
Valuation · disclosed
Disclosed eventsSource: SEC prospectus filings, and round valuations the company or its investors disclosed — follow each entry's link for the claim.
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Innovapptive is a Houston, Texas-based enterprise software company that provides a mobile-first, AI-powered "Connected Worker" and Industrial Execution Platform for asset-intensive industries. The platform is positioned as a layer between operational technology signals (SCADA, DCS, historians such as OSI PI, sensors and time-series telemetry) and IT systems of record (ERP/EAM, EHS applications such as Enablon and Gensuite), orchestrating frontline execution across operations, maintenance, storerooms and MRO, health and safety, and back-office analytics.
Functional coverage includes operator rounds and inspections, shift handovers, work order planning and execution, digital work instructions and SOPs, spare parts picking and staging, cycle counting, permits to work, lockout/tagout, inspections and incident capture, plus OEE and reliability dashboards. The company states the platform includes more than 15 AI agents for predictive failure detection, natural-language and computer-vision interaction, root-cause analysis and autonomous workflow execution, and more than 50 prebuilt bi-directional integrations with systems including SAP, IBM Maximo, Oracle, historians, APM, MES/SCADA and EHS tools.
Earlier positioning described the company as a "conversational operations" platform connecting equipment, machines, materials and drones with field workers, back office, suppliers and executives.
Founding story
Sundeep V. Ravande co-founded Innovapptive and serves as CEO; prior to founding the company he worked at consulting firms including IBM and Accenture on digital transformation projects for Fortune 500 clients such as Verizon, Shell, Mead Johnson Nutrition, Coca-Cola and FMC Corp. He holds a Master of Science in aerospace and mechanical engineering from the University of Mississippi and frames the company around a connected worker experience for an estimated 350 million field workers globally.
Business model
Enterprise B2B software sold to industrial operators, delivered as a unified platform with prebuilt integrations into customers' existing ERP, EAM, historian and EHS systems; the company markets outcome-based value cases such as ROI multiples and EBITDA improvement.
Traction
The company reports 250+ team members, operations at more than 100 sites, and a 4.6 Glassdoor rating with Great Place To Work certification for six consecutive years. A published customer case study states Indorama Ventures unlocked $50 million in annual maintenance savings, reduced overtime from 24% to 10%, cut contractors from 140 to 83, achieved 99.5% inventory accuracy and eliminated its preventive work order backlog.
Latest developments
Frost & Sullivan named Innovapptive 2026 Company of the Year for Global Connected Worker Platforms, following a Leader position in the 2025 Frost Radar for Augmented Connected Worker End-to-End Platforms. The company markets a platform with 15+ AI agents for autonomous execution and publishes customer outcomes from Indorama Ventures.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
Frost & Sullivan named Innovapptive 2026 Company of the Year for Global Connected Worker Platforms and positioned it as a Leader in its 2025 Frost Radar for Augmented Connected Worker, End-to-End Platforms, citing platform breadth, AI execution capability and one of the more extensive AI agent portfolios among vendors serving maintenance, operations, reliability, safety and analytics.
Positions itself as an execution-orchestration layer bridging OT insight and IT systems of record rather than another analytics or system-of-record tool, offering a single mobile interface spanning maintenance, operations, warehouse, EHS and quality, a large portfolio of AI agents, and prebuilt bi-directional enterprise integrations.
Technology
AI- and mobile-first platform combining more than 15 AI agents (predictive analytics for failure detection, natural language interaction, computer vision for inspections, AI-driven root cause analysis), no-code automation, interactive digital SOPs and work instructions, live KPI/OEE dashboards, and more than 50 prebuilt bi-directional integrations across data historians, APM, MES/SCADA, EHS and ERP/CMMS systems including SAP and Maximo.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales supported by demo requests, product tours, whitepapers and customer case studies, with an in-house pre-sales and solution engineering organization; marketing emphasizes quantified operational KPI and EBITDA outcomes and analyst recognition.
Asset-intensive process and discrete industrial enterprises, including chemicals, oil and gas, mining and metals, power generation and manufacturing; buyer personas cited include plant managers, operations, maintenance and reliability leaders, and CIOs/IT leaders.
Geography
Headquartered in Houston, Texas, with team members across Houston and Hyderabad; at the time of its Series A the company reported offices in Australia, the Netherlands and India. The company states its people and products operate at 100+ sites.
History
The company announced a $16.3 million Series A led by Tiger Global Management in April 2019, at a stated valuation of more than $65 million, to fund global expansion and development of its conversational operations platform. It has since repositioned its offering as an AI-first Industrial Execution Platform and received Frost & Sullivan recognition in 2025 and 2026.
Compiled by commissioned research from 8 cited public sources — announcements, filings, and press listed under research sources below.
Key figures
latest reportedCompany-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.
Timeline · 3
launches, deals, and filingsFrost & Sullivan Best Practices award recognizing Innovapptive's end-to-end connected worker platform.
Positioned as a Leader in the Frost Radar 2025 for augmented connected worker platforms based on innovation, growth performance and enterprise scalability.
Innovapptive announced a $16.3 million Series A led by Tiger Global Management to fund global expansion and further investment in its conversational operations platform, bringing valuation to more than $65 million.
$16.3M source ↗
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
In the news
▸Research sources · 8
primary sources listed
- Innovapptiveinnovapptive.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Innovapptive do?
- Innovapptive builds an AI-powered connected worker and industrial execution platform for asset-intensive manufacturers.
- Who founded Innovapptive?
- Innovapptive was founded by Sundeep Ravande in 2018.
- Who are Innovapptive's investors?
- Innovapptive's investors include Espresso Capital, Hyderabad Angels, Tiger Global Management, Vista Equity Partners.
- How much funding has Innovapptive raised?
- Innovapptive has disclosed $53.6M raised across 5 of its 6 known rounds.
- Where is Innovapptive headquartered?
- Innovapptive is headquartered in Houston, US.


