Applied Computing Raises $20M Series A for a Plant-Wide Oil and Gas Foundation Model

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Applied Computing raised a $20M Series A to build a foundation model spanning an entire oil, gas, and petrochemical plant rather than individual process units. Whole-facility scope is the interesting claim — most industrial AI stops at single-asset predictive maintenance because cross-unit sensor data is rarely unified. Execution risk is high and this is single-source, but the vertical-foundation-model pattern is worth tracking.