iMaintain raises £250k pre-seed to cut factory faults by capturing maintenance knowledge
This article covers iMaintain, a SaaS startup, which has closed a pre-seed funding round of just over £250k to develop a platform that captures, structures and reuses maintenance knowledge for manufacturers. The funding aims to accelerate product development, broaden customer deployments and scale AI-driven features to help maintenance teams and UK manufacturers preserve operational expertise and reduce recurring faults.
iMaintain, a SaaS startup based in Gloucestershire, has closed a pre-seed funding round of just over £250,000 to develop a platform that captures, structures and reuses maintenance knowledge for manufacturers. The funding aims to accelerate product development, expand customer deployments and scale the startup’s AI-driven capabilities — a practical step toward making factory-floor AI more useful by first building reliable data foundations.
Why it matters
Maintenance knowledge is often trapped in engineers’ heads or fragmented across spreadsheets and paper logs. That makes recurring faults harder to prevent and slows attempts to apply AI to improve reliability. iMaintain’s product addresses this gap by helping teams turn everyday engineering experience into shared organisational intelligence. For UK manufacturing — a sector where uptime and retained skills matter to competitiveness — tools that preserve and operationalise expertise can have outsized operational impact.
Inside the product
iMaintain’s platform is designed to capture maintenance processes and decisions, structure them so they can be searched and reused, and surface actionable information to maintenance teams. Key aims cited by the company include improving visibility across teams, reducing recurring faults and shifting operations from reactive fixes to more reliable, data-led practices.
The startup positions this work as the “digital foundations” needed before more advanced AI tools can deliver consistent value on the factory floor. Funding will be spent on product development, growing deployments with existing customers and extending the platform’s AI-driven features — notably those that support knowledge retention and fault reduction rather than speculative or experimental AI applications.
Who are the investors?
The round was backed by early-stage investment firm SFC Capital. According to the company announcement, the funds will be used to accelerate product work, broaden customer deployments across the UK and continue scaling the platform’s AI capabilities.
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Founder perspective
In the announcement, Hannah Savagar, Director at iMaintain, said:
Closing our pre-seed round is a huge milestone for iMaintain.
Manufacturing plays a vital role in the UK economy, and this backing allows us to scale with confidence while staying true to our mission of building practical, human-centred technology that genuinely helps maintenance teams. We are excited about what comes next and proud to have investors who share our long-term vision.
The bigger picture
iMaintain’s raise highlights continued investor interest in practical, industrial SaaS that addresses workflow and knowledge gaps rather than promising immediate AI breakthroughs. As UK manufacturers face labour shortages, retiring expertise and pressure to raise productivity, startups that make maintenance knowledge durable and actionable are likely to find demand.
By prioritising structured knowledge capture and incremental AI capabilities, iMaintain fits a broader pattern in the UK and European ecosystem: investors and operators are favouring solutions that demonstrate clear operational outcomes before scaling advanced automation.
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