# akeno: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/akeno/
Covers: May 15, 2025
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, 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

> 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.

"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: [akeno.ai](https://www.akeno.ai/).

## Facts

- Site: [akeno.ai](https://www.akeno.ai/)
- Founded: [2021](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-akeno)
- Category: Production scheduling
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-akeno)

"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: [akeno.ai](https://www.akeno.ai/).

- Category: Production scheduling
- Price: not published; sales-led
- AI capabilities: Named agent, AI scheduling and Digital twin and simulation
- Scale: Funded challenger: institutional funding disclosed (EUR 4.5M seed round; live in Europe, North America and Asia)
- Founded: 2021

Sources: [akeno.ai](https://www.akeno.ai/), [akeno.ai](https://www.akeno.ai/product), [akeno.ai](https://www.akeno.ai/company), [akeno.ai](https://www.akeno.ai/journal), [tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2025/05/15/akeno-raises-eur45m-for-real-time-ai-based-production-planning-software/) and [chemeurope.com](https://www.chemeurope.com/en/news/1186305/akeno-receives-4-5-million-euros-for-real-time-production-planning.html).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### akeno raises EUR 4.5M seed

Funding round, May 15, 2025. Seed round led by Cusp Capital with TS Ventures and another.vc to scale its AI production planning software and enter new industries.

Source: [Tech.eu](https://tech.eu/2025/05/15/akeno-raises-eur45m-for-real-time-ai-based-production-planning-software/). From [the AI manufacturing operations software map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/manufacturing-operations-software/#co-akeno).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology