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Exclusive: Cloneable Raises $4.6M To ‘Clone’ Expert Worker Knowledge With Agentic AI For Utilities And Infrastructure

$4.6M. That's what Cloneable just raised to turn utility workers into AI agents.

Reporting by Crunchbase News 1 min brief
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As labor scarcity hits critical infrastructure, startups are now automating expert knowledge at scale. This seed round signals investor appetite for agentic AI that can replicate specialized workflows in high-stakes industries where domain expertise is a bottleneck.

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  1. Cloneable raises $4.6M seed funding

  2. Focus: energy and heavy infrastructure verticals

  3. Core technology: AI shadowing and workflow replication into autonomous agents

  4. Target use case: knowledge cloning from expert workers

  5. Published Apr 23, 2026 (real-time funding news)

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Publisher excerpt: Cloneable, a startup that uses AI to shadow human experts in heavy industries such as energy and replicate their specialized workflows into autonomous agents, has raised $4.6 million in seed funding, the company tells Crunchbase News exclusively.
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