Roll & Gauge
Roll and gauge control.
Steel & Flat Metals
Steelira
Autonomous operations layer for steel and flat-metals rolling — gauge and shape control, AI strip-surface inspection, TMCP optimisation.
Overview
What Steelira does.
Steelira closes the loop on steel and flat-metals rolling: roll and gauge control, surface and shape inspection, schedule and flow, temper and coat, roll and chatter, robotics and yield and energy orchestration, and the mill and metallurgy twin.
Every coil produces labelled rolling and inspection traces that train the next model, tightening the loop from slab to finished coil.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Stage | Seed |
| Category | Physical AI |
| Year | 2026 |
| Website | steelira.com |
| Headquarters | Not disclosed |
| Raised | $2M |
| Investor | 10xC |
| Model | Per-mill software subscription with an energy and yield outcome component. |
| Measured by | Coil conformance, gauge and shape Cpk, energy per tonne, mills expanded per customer. |
Products
One loop, module by module.
Every deployment on steelira.com writes labelled traces back into the model, so the system generalises across plants, alloys, grades and geometries.
Surface & Shape
Strip-surface and shape inspection.
Schedule & Flow
Rolling-schedule and flow optimisation.
Temper & Coat
Temper and coating control.
Roll & Chatter
Roll and chatter intelligence.
Robot & Handling
Robotics and handling across the line.
Yield & Energy
Yield and energy orchestration.
Why we invested
The thesis behind Steelira.
Steel rolling is a mill-business where a gauge drift ruins coils and surface inspection still runs at line speed with human eyes, catching defects after the coil is wound. Energy is a large share of conversion cost.
Steelira moves gauge and surface control onto the line. The buyer is a rolling mill paying in hard currency; the wedge is one mill stand or inspection step, and coil conformance and energy per tonne are the numbers that open the next module.
Who is building it
Co-Founder & CEO
Co-Founder & CEOOwns the mill relationships, the pilot programme and the commercial model.
Co-Founder & CTO
Co-Founder & CTOOwns the rolling and inspection models, the edge runtime and the write-back into mill control.
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