Omen AI
Category: AI Infrastructure
Omen AI builds real-time fluid analysis sensors and AI that monitor coolant health in data centers and industrial machinery, preventing costly downtime from bacterial contamination and equipment wear. Omen AI was founded in 2024. The company is led by Zach Laberge. Based in San Francisco, California, United States. Team size: 11-50. Total funding raised: $41.5M. Latest round: Series A. Key investors include Nava Ventures, CRV, Vanderbilt University, Mann+Hummel, Starhill Holdings, Hard Launch Capital.
- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Team size
- 11-50
- Total funding
- $41.5M
Value proposition
Replace slow, lab-based fluid testing (weeks-long turnaround) with continuous, real-time on-site analysis using a tiny spectrometer, enabling data centers and industrial operators to catch contamination and wear before they cause multi-million-dollar downtime.
Products and solutions
Omen continuous fluid analysis sensor (real-time spectrometer for coolant/oil/water monitoring), Omen portable lab box (on-site fluid analysis device), Real-time dashboard for equipment health monitoring, metal content, contamination, and wear pattern tracking
Unique value
Real-time fluid intelligence down to the molecular level — a miniaturized spectrometer that continuously monitors coolant chemistry in liquid-cooled data centers, detecting bacterial growth, metal wear (copper, chromium, iron), and seal degradation (silicon) before failures occur, eliminating the need for costly system flushes and lab sample shipping.
Target customer
Data center operators (hyperscalers, colocation providers, AI compute clouds); Industrial machinery fleets (construction, heavy equipment); Mission-critical infrastructure teams managing HVAC, turbines, generators, and liquid cooling systems
Industries served
Data Centers / AI Infrastructure, Industrial Machinery / Heavy Equipment, Mission-Critical Facilities Management
How they differentiate
Recent advances in optical hardware (cheap enough to deploy at scale) combined with proprietary signal processing software that extracts meaningful insights from noise. Unlike competitors who ship samples to labs or use older monitoring tech, Omen's sensor is non-invasive, continuously deployed, and catches issues in real time. The company also benefits from a unique go-to-market path via Caterpillar dealerships that bridged industrial machinery to data center cooling.
Main competitors
Pyxis (established water-monitoring firm that launched data center coolant monitoring product in June 2026), Traditional lab-based fluid analysis services, Iceotope (liquid cooling infrastructure, $26M raised)
Key partnerships
Caterpillar dealerships (early customers and channel partners bridging industrial to data center), TensorWave (AI compute cloud on AMD chips, customer and investor), Mann+Hummel (investor, filtration/fluid expertise)
Notable customers
TensorWave (AI compute cloud), Caterpillar dealerships (industrial machinery), ~12 data center customers (as of June 2026)
Major milestones
2024: Company founded by Zach Laberge, 2024-2025: Seed round led by CRV (~$10.5M), Early 2026: Pivot from industrial machinery to data center coolant monitoring via Caterpillar dealership channel, June 2026: $31M Series A led by Nava Ventures ($41.5M total raised), June 2026: ~12 data center customers including TensorWave, Team grew from solo founder to 20+ people in San Francisco
Growth metrics
$150B combined customer revenue; 2M machines operated by customers; 10-14 GW data centers owned/operated by customers (per company website); Team grew from 1 to 20+ in ~6 months
Market positioning
Early-stage pioneer in real-time data center coolant monitoring, positioned at the intersection of the liquid cooling boom (driven by AI GPU density) and the broader industrial predictive maintenance market. Competes against traditional lab-based fluid analysis and emerging on-premises analytics from established water monitoring firms.
Geographic focus
United States (San Francisco HQ); expanding globally through data center and industrial partnerships
About Zach Laberge
Ex-frenter (Founder, first startup at age 14, raised $3M for construction equipment sensors, dropped out of high school); Z Fellows; Creative Destruction Lab (CDL); Launch Accelerator LA27 Cohort 2022-2023
Official website: https://omen.ai