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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.

SRSundeep Ravande
Sundeep RavandeinCEO, Co-Founder & Executive BoardSundeep Ravande is CEO and founder of Innovapptive, a platform for digital transformation in manufacturing and industrial operations. He previously held consulting roles at IBM and Accenture advising Fortune 500 clients on digital strategy, and holds a Master of Science in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mississippi.

Investors · 4

Funding

SEC filings, press & company announcements

$53.6M disclosed across 5 of 6 rounds · 2016–2025

$26MraisedMay 2023 · 2 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • 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
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$3.5MraisedJun 2022 · 1 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • 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
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$5.7MraisedMay 2021 · 4 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • Sundeep RavandeExecutive Officer, Director
Offering amount
$5.7M
Amount sold
$5.7M
First sale
Apr 2021
Incorporated
Corporation, Texas, 2018
Federal exemptions
06b
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$16.3MraisedApr 2019 · 1 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • 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
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗
$2.1MraisedJun 2018 · 57 investors · Other Technology
Rule 506(b)
Officers, directors & promoters on the filing
  • 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
Full filing on SEC EDGAR ↗

Source: SEC EDGAR Form D. Amounts as filed; amended filings shown once at their latest values.

Valuation · disclosed

Disclosed events
$65Mvaluation at Series AApr 2019
filing ↗

Source: SEC prospectus filings, and round valuations the company or its investors disclosed — follow each entry's link for the claim.

Company profile

researched Aug 2026

Innovapptive 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 reported
AI agents on platformJan 202615 agents
Customer annual maintenance savings (Indorama Ventures)Jan 2026$50M
Customer inventory accuracy achieved (Indorama Ventures)Jan 202699.5%
Disclosed amount in SEC filings (Houston ranking)Jul 2026$26M
Glassdoor ratingJan 20264.6 stars
Prebuilt integrationsJan 202650 integrations
Sites where products and people operateJan 2026100 sites
Team membersJan 2026250 people
Valuation at Series AApr 2019$65M

Company-reported or press-reported figures, each dated to when it was claimed — not independently audited.

Timeline · 3

launches, deals, and filings
Jan 2026
Frost & Sullivan 2026 Company of the Year, Global Connected Worker Platforms

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices award recognizing Innovapptive's end-to-end connected worker platform.

source ↗

Jan 2025
Named a Leader in Frost Radar for Augmented Connected Worker Platforms

Positioned as a Leader in the Frost Radar 2025 for augmented connected worker platforms based on innovation, growth performance and enterprise scalability.

source ↗

Apr 2019
Series A investment of $16.3 million led by Tiger Global Management

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

8 public sources were cited for this profile; the first-party ones are listed here.

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.