Plasiv
Founded 2025 · 8 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors
Plasiv is a manufacturing intelligence platform that unifies production planning, simulation and factory data validation.
Also known as PlaSiV
Founders & leadership
Plasiv was founded in 2025 by kishan chalumuri.
Investors · 1
Company profile
researched Aug 2026Plasiv is a software company building an integrated manufacturing intelligence platform intended to replace spreadsheets, disconnected point tools and undocumented process knowledge used by industrial and manufacturing engineering teams. The product combines six disciplines the company says are typically handled in separate systems: process planning, predetermined time standards, line balancing, discrete-event simulation, factory data validation and lean manufacturing. It is organized around a plan–simulate–validate loop, with hierarchy levels spanning program, product, factory, site and line, and dashboards tracking metrics such as efficiency, cost per unit, throughput (units per hour), takt alignment and OEE.
Functional modules are grouped by user role. Manufacturing engineers get station configuration, process optimization, build-phase management and real-time KPI tracking; industrial engineers get AI-assisted video-based time study, MODAPTS methodology support, lean classification and precedence management; operations leaders get program-level dashboards, cost waterfall analysis, risk identification and cross-site visibility. The company positions the platform for multi-plant manufacturers whose engineering, planning and cost data are spread across geographies such as Mexico, India, China and Taiwan. The founder has separately described the company as software that helps electronics manufacturers cut costs and work more effectively with their contract manufacturers.
Founding story
Founder and CEO Kishan Chalumuri, an industrial engineer, attributes the company's focus to his family's small contract manufacturing business in India and its recurring inefficiencies, and to 17 years of industry experience including building Apple's first industrial engineering team and leading digital transformation work there. He launched the company while completing an executive MBA at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, graduating in 2025.
Business model
Enterprise software sold to manufacturers, with a demo-request sales motion and enterprise deployment features including role-based access, SSO and enterprise authentication, audit trails, multi-site support, API access, Excel import/export, real-time sync and version control.
Traction
The founder stated in July 2025 that the company had secured pre-seed funding and pilot partnerships with large electronics manufacturers. The company reports conducting more than 100 interviews across OEMs, contract manufacturers and production facilities for a forthcoming industry report.
Latest developments
The company markets Plasiv Intelligence, its AI layer, and lists three forthcoming publications as coming soon: a manufacturing intelligence report based on 100+ industry interviews, an introduction to Plasiv Intelligence, and an analysis of manufacturing's reliance on Excel.
▸Full profile — market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history
Market position
An early-stage entrant in manufacturing/industrial engineering software, targeting what its site characterizes as a $2.3 trillion industry still largely run on Excel.
Plasiv positions itself against single-purpose tools by unifying six manufacturing engineering disciplines in one system and by applying an AI layer that evaluates cross-system ripple effects rather than analyzing one function at a time. It claims deployment and baseline establishment in roughly 40-60 hours.
Technology
The platform connects planning, simulation and factory data in a continuous loop and includes an AI layer, Plasiv Intelligence, that the company describes as holding the full graph of builds, stations, cost lines and constraints in context. Stated capabilities include bottleneck prediction, auto-optimization of line configurations, anomaly detection on cost and supplier variances, root-cause correlation across modules, and simulation of corrective actions, with a human-in-the-loop approval step. Onboarding is via import of existing Excel production plans, time studies and line designs. The company states it is SOC 2 Type 2 compliant.
Go-to-market
Direct enterprise sales through demo requests and expert consultations on the company website, supported by planned content including a manufacturing intelligence report drawn from interviews across OEMs, contract manufacturers and production facilities.
Multi-site manufacturers and electronics manufacturers and their contract manufacturers; users include manufacturing engineers, industrial engineers, operations leaders, plant managers, operators and C-suite executives.
Geography
Company materials reference a San Francisco, California headquarters context with factories in Mexico, India, China and Taiwan; a business directory lists the company address in Cupertino, California.
History
A directory listing gives a 2025 founding year and 1-10 employees. By mid-2025 the founder described the company as having pre-seed funding and pilot partnerships; it has also been described in a business directory as a stealth startup focused on simplifying electronics contract manufacturing.
Compiled by commissioned research from 5 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 · 2
launches, deals, and filingsIn a July 2025 profile, founder and CEO Kishan Chalumuri stated he was graduating from his executive MBA with pre-seed funding for PlaSiV. No amount or investors were disclosed.
The founder stated the company had established pilot partnerships with some of the world's largest electronics manufacturers.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
▸Research sources · 5
primary sources listed
- Plasivplasiv.com · web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Plasiv do?
- Plasiv is a manufacturing intelligence platform that unifies production planning, simulation and factory data validation.
- Who founded Plasiv?
- Plasiv was founded by kishan chalumuri in 2025.
- Who are Plasiv's investors?
- Plasiv's investors include Mango Capital.