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Kartorium
Techstars '25Anchorage, US · Founded 2019 · 5 employees on LinkedIn · 3 known investors
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Kartorium is an operations platform that provides a 3D "Visual Twin" of sites, AI-powered search across manuals, SOPs, and records, and analytics tracking batches, jobs, downtime, and quality. It serves maintenance and operations teams in manufacturing, facilities, utilities, and mining.
Also known as Kartorium
Founders & leadership
Kartorium was founded in 2019 by Jay Byam.
Investors · 3
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Company profile
researched Sep 2026Kartorium develops a software platform for industrial maintenance and operations teams that combines three product lines: Production Intelligence, a batch and job tracking system providing analytics on performance, quality and operational metrics beyond traditional OEE; Visual Twin, interactive 3D visualization and digital twin capability for navigating facilities and accessing equipment information in spatial context; and AI Search, natural-language search across equipment documentation, maintenance records, work orders and technical specifications.
The platform is positioned against fragmented industrial data, offering a unified interface in which operations managers, maintenance technicians and engineers can track performance metrics, locate equipment spatially and retrieve documentation. Stated use cases include production performance analysis, batch and job tracking, equipment troubleshooting, new technician onboarding, maintenance planning and capture of knowledge from retiring technicians. A separate documentation site covers user workflows for the Dashboard, Builder, Asset Manager and Models modules, plus a client API for reading and updating Builder projects, scenes, features and map data, and scoped organization API keys.
Business model
Business-to-business software platform sold to industrial facilities and operations organizations, with a request-a-demo contact motion and scoped organization API keys issued to client organizations for integration work.
Traction
Public materials cite use-case outcome claims including 15-25% production efficiency improvement, 60% reduction in troubleshooting time and 40% reduction in maintenance planning time, and a regional roundup reports $220,000 raised from backers including Techstars Global. Named customers are not disclosed in available sources.
Latest developments
Company website content was last updated February 18, 2026, and the Kartorium documentation site carries a June 23, 2026 date, covering user workflows and client API and API key guidance. A February 20, 2026 regional article lists Kartorium among Anchorage AI startups to watch and reports $220,000 raised from backers including Techstars Global.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography
Market position
Operates in the industrial maintenance and operations software segment alongside digital twin, CMMS-adjacent analytics and enterprise search tools. It is named in a February 2026 roundup of Anchorage AI startups to watch, which cites its fundraising as evidence of local technical capability.
The company positions the product as combining analytics, 3D visualization and search in a single platform rather than separate tools, with production analytics extending beyond traditional OEE metrics, AI tuned to industrial maintenance terminology, spatial context for equipment location and relationships, and a stated focus on knowledge transfer and technician onboarding. The documentation also emphasizes enabling non-technical users to create and share 3D digital twins.
Technology
The platform ingests and renders multiple 3D and geospatial data formats (.glb, .las, .laz, .stl, .e57, .geojson, .tiff, .tif, .ply, .splat, .ksplat, .spz) and 360-degree panoramic images, and is stated to be compatible with Matterport, Leica, NavVis and FARO scanning platforms. Capabilities include point cloud processing and visualization, Gaussian splatting for photorealistic rendering, geospatial data integration, a production analytics engine for batch and job tracking, and semantic search over unstructured industrial documentation. Integrations are offered with CMMS and ERP systems, SCADA and sensor data streams, existing documentation repositories, and 3D scanning and LiDAR platforms. A client API supports reading and updating Builder projects, scenes, features and map data.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise outreach through the company website, with demo requests and contact via info@kartorium.com and support via support@kartorium.com, supported by industry-specific landing pages for manufacturing, electric utilities, water utilities, mining and facility maintenance, and public product documentation for users and integration partners.
Industrial facilities with complex equipment and extensive physical infrastructure, including discrete and process manufacturing plants, electric utilities and power generation, water and wastewater utilities, mining and resource extraction, and general facility maintenance operations. Buyer personas cited are plant managers and operations directors, continuous improvement and lean manufacturing teams, maintenance managers and reliability engineers, CTOs and IT leaders, and training and development managers. Emphasis is placed on organizations facing knowledge transfer challenges from a retiring workforce or high technician turnover.
Geography
Headquartered in Alaska, United States, and cited among Anchorage-area startups.
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.
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Timeline · 1
launches, deals, and filingsA roundup of Anchorage AI startups states that Kartorium raised $220,000 from backers including Techstars Global. No round label or date of the raise is given.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Kartorium do?
- Kartorium is an AI search, 3D digital twin and production analytics platform for industrial maintenance and operations teams.
- Who founded Kartorium?
- Kartorium was founded by Jay Byam in 2019.
- Who are Kartorium's investors?
- Kartorium's investors include 49th State Angel Fund, Launch Alaska Investment Fund, Techstars.
- Where is Kartorium headquartered?
- Kartorium is headquartered in Anchorage, US.