Pyron
Burning-zone and kiln control that holds temperature and chemistry on profile.
Cement & Concrete
Clinkum
Autonomous AI for cement and concrete production — burning-zone control, clinker-quality sensing, energy and CO2 optimisation.
Overview
What Clinkum does.
Clinkum runs the cement and concrete process: burning-zone and kiln control, clinker-quality sensing, grinding, mixing, energy and CO2 optimisation, and the plant digital twin.
Every kiln deployment writes labelled pyroprocess data back into the model, so the system generalises across fuels, raw mixes and plant configurations.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Stage | Seed |
| Category | Physical AI |
| Year | 2026 |
| Website | clinkum.com |
| Headquarters | Not disclosed |
| Raised | $2M |
| Investor | 10xC |
| Model | Per-kiln software subscription with an energy and yield outcome component. |
| Measured by | Clinker quality, fuel and power per tonne, kiln uptime, plants expanded per customer. |
Products
One loop, module by module.
Every deployment on clinkum.com writes labelled traces back into the model, so the system generalises across plants, alloys, grades and geometries.
Clinvue
Clinker-quality sensing from the cooler and the lab.
Cemtwin
Plant digital twin for what-if, ramp and energy planning.
Carbex
Energy and CO2 optimisation across kiln, mill and power.
Refron
Refractory and kiln-health intelligence.
Pourix
Concrete and ready-mix batch control.
Why we invested
The thesis behind Clinkum.
Cement is a high-tonnage, low-margin business where fuel and power dominate cost and kiln uptime dominates output. The kiln is still run on the experience of a few operators who retire faster than they are replaced.
Clinkum encodes that experience. The first deployment is one kiln, entered through a paid pilot, and the same model generalises to the next plant with privacy-preserving priors. Energy saved and clinker quality held are the two numbers the buyer already reports to the board.
Who is building it
Marcus Whitfield
Chief Executive OfficerMarcus owns plant relationships, the pilot programme and the commercial model.
Sarah Kowalski
Chief Technology OfficerSarah owns the kiln models, the edge runtime and the write-back into pyroprocess control.
Building something similar?
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