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  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "cite_as": "Newsprint, \"akeno: what it sells, price and AI features\", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/akeno/, updated 2026-11-11",
  "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
  "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/akeno/",
  "markdown_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/akeno.md",
  "title": "akeno: what it sells, price and AI features",
  "opening_answer": "akeno is on the AI manufacturing operations software map. We record 1 dated launch or event for it. The latest is dated May 15, 2025.",
  "period": "May 15, 2025",
  "methodology_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology",
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    "site": "https://www.akeno.ai/",
    "summary": "\"Autonomous decisions for industrial operations.\" akeno builds a Live Operations Model of the plant, has AI propose strategies, tests each one against plant history, and turns the chosen one into the live schedule for every line and shift. Built first for chemical and other batch plants. Plant and planning leaders buy it.",
    "founded": 2021,
    "categories": [
      "scheduling"
    ],
    "status": "active",
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    "updated_at": "2026-11-11",
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    "category_names": [
      "Production scheduling"
    ]
  },
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  "dated_product_launches": 0,
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  "launches_data_url": "https://www.newsprint.com/data/launches.json",
  "count": 0,
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  "summary": {
    "text": "\"Autonomous decisions for industrial operations.\" akeno builds a Live Operations Model of the plant, has AI propose strategies, tests each one against plant history, and turns the chosen one into the live schedule for every line and shift. Built first for chemical and other batch plants. Plant and planning leaders buy it.",
    "source": {
      "name": "akeno.ai",
      "url": "https://www.akeno.ai/"
    },
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      "map": "manufacturing-operations-software",
      "title": "The AI manufacturing operations software map",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-akeno",
      "section": "companies",
      "name": "akeno",
      "site": "https://www.akeno.ai/",
      "category": "Production scheduling",
      "what": "\"Autonomous decisions for industrial operations.\" akeno builds a Live Operations Model of the plant, has AI propose strategies, tests each one against plant history, and turns the chosen one into the live schedule for every line and shift. Built first for chemical and other batch plants. Plant and planning leaders buy it.",
      "what_source": {
        "name": "akeno.ai",
        "url": "https://www.akeno.ai/"
      },
      "price": "not published; sales-led",
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      "capabilities": {
        "label": "AI capabilities",
        "items": [
          "Named agent",
          "AI scheduling",
          "Digital twin and simulation"
        ]
      },
      "scale_tier": 3,
      "scale": "Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (EUR 4.5M seed round; live in Europe, North America and Asia)",
      "founded": "2021",
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        {
          "name": "akeno.ai",
          "url": "https://www.akeno.ai/"
        },
        {
          "name": "akeno.ai",
          "url": "https://www.akeno.ai/product"
        },
        {
          "name": "akeno.ai",
          "url": "https://www.akeno.ai/company"
        },
        {
          "name": "akeno.ai",
          "url": "https://www.akeno.ai/journal"
        },
        {
          "name": "tech.eu",
          "url": "https://tech.eu/2025/05/15/akeno-raises-eur45m-for-real-time-ai-based-production-planning-software/"
        },
        {
          "name": "chemeurope.com",
          "url": "https://www.chemeurope.com/en/news/1186305/akeno-receives-4-5-million-euros-for-real-time-production-planning.html"
        }
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  "timeline": [
    {
      "id": "event-1",
      "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/companies/akeno/#event-1",
      "on": "2025-05-15",
      "date_precision": "day",
      "title": "akeno raises EUR 4.5M seed",
      "summary": "Seed round led by Cusp Capital with TS Ventures and another.vc to scale its AI production planning software and enter new industries.",
      "kind": "Funding round",
      "from": {
        "name": "The AI manufacturing operations software map",
        "url": "https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-akeno"
      },
      "source": {
        "name": "Tech.eu",
        "url": "https://tech.eu/2025/05/15/akeno-raises-eur45m-for-real-time-ai-based-production-planning-software/"
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