Aquant builds agentic AI purpose-built for servicing complex equipment - turning decades of buried service data and expert know-how into agents that guide every technician, agent and customer.
Aquant - New York City. Founded 2016 by Shahar Chen and Assaf Melochna. The company that decided AI for service should be narrow, not universal.
Every manufacturer of complex equipment sits on a quiet contradiction. It owns mountains of service data - error codes, repair logs, parts histories, the accumulated instincts of its best technicians - and almost no practical way to put that data to work when a machine breaks at 2 a.m. in a hospital, a factory or a quarry.
Aquant was built around that gap. The New York company makes agentic AI designed for one job: servicing complex equipment. It ingests a company's service records and captures the reasoning of its subject-matter experts, then turns both into AI agents that answer questions, recommend fixes, suggest parts and flag risk - in real time, at the moment of need.
The agents show up where service actually happens. A field technician can ask a question by voice. A call-center agent gets a suggested diagnosis mid-conversation. A customer can self-serve a first-line fix. A service leader sees which issues are about to spike. It is the same underlying knowledge, reshaped for whoever is asking.
The through-line is a refusal to be generic. Aquant does not try to answer everything. It answers questions about turbines, MRI scanners, printing presses and construction cranes - the high-stakes machines where a wrong answer is expensive and a fast right one pays for itself.
The people who know how to fix complex machines are retiring faster than new technicians can be trained. When a 30-year veteran leaves, the knowledge leaves with them - and onboarding a replacement can take a year or more. Meanwhile the machines get more complicated, not less.
In 2016 we saw a growing skills gap making it harder to deliver fast, effective service - while companies sat on huge amounts of valuable data they couldn't use.
Aquant frames its value in the KPIs service leaders are measured on. These are the levers its customers report moving - directional, drawn from public customer stories rather than a single benchmark.
Directional, from published customer stories - actual results vary by deployment.
From an analytics dashboard to a full agentic platform - here is what a service organization actually deploys.
Deploys AI agents across field service, call centers, self-service and leadership - built specifically for complex equipment.
Generative-AI assistant that produces troubleshooting recommendations from service history and captured expert knowledge, on desktop, mobile and chat.
Lets service teams build, customize and deploy their own AI agents, plus a library of pre-built ones.
A hands-free voice agent that answers technicians and captures expert knowledge, designed to work even in low-connectivity field conditions.
Camera-based visual problem-solving that helps diagnose equipment issues from images.
Knowledge Agent, Parts Agent, Call Assist and Usage Monitor for search, parts recommendation, call handling and asset monitoring.
General chatbots give general answers. Aquant is trained on error codes, schematics and service logs, so it gives equipment-specific ones. In high-stakes service, specificity is the product.
Beyond documents, Aquant captures the reasoning of a company's best technicians - the judgment that never made it into a manual - and makes it reusable.
It integrates with CRM and ERP systems like Salesforce and meets people where service happens, rather than living in a separate tab.
Technicians, agents, customers and leaders draw on the same knowledge base, each getting an interface shaped for their task.
Aquant sells to global OEMs and service organizations that run complex, high-value equipment - medical devices, industrial machinery, manufacturing, high-tech and food equipment. Users span field technicians, call-center agents, service leaders and end customers.
In the market, Aquant sits between broad field-service platforms and general-purpose AI assistants. The alternatives - Neuron7, Salesforce Service Cloud, ServiceNow and ServiceMax/PTC - either handle the workflow without deep service reasoning, or offer generic AI without service-specific data. Aquant's wager is that the winning position is the specialized middle: AI that understands service and plugs into the systems teams already run.
Aquant runs a B2B enterprise SaaS model. Manufacturers and service organizations subscribe to its agentic AI platform, typically priced by role/seat and deployment scope, integrated with their existing CRM and ERP. Revenue grows as customers expand agents across more teams - from field service into call centers, self-service and leadership analytics.
Subscription access to the agentic AI platform, sold to OEMs and service organizations.
Start with one service function, extend agents across the full service lifecycle.
Third-party estimate, not company-confirmed - directional only.
Roughly $112M+ raised across four rounds, from Lightspeed to a $70M Series C in 2021.
| Round | Amount | Date | Lead investors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seed | ~$2.6M | 2017 | Early-stage investors |
| Series A | $10M | 2019 | Lightspeed Venture Partners |
| Series B | $30M | 2020 | Insight Partners |
| Series C | $70M | Oct 2021 | Qumra Capital, Insight Partners, Pitango Growth |
Shahar Chen and Assaf Melochna start Aquant to close the service skills gap using AI and untapped service data.
Early funding to build the service intelligence platform.
Lightspeed Venture Partners leads to scale the enterprise AI platform.
Insight Partners leads, focused on closing the skills gap in service with AI.
Qumra Capital, Insight Partners and Pitango Growth back the round.
A generative-AI assistant purpose-built for service teams.
Roger voice AI and Vision AI extend the platform to new interfaces.
Chen leads Aquant with 15+ years in the software industry, including time as an account executive at ClickSoftware - a background in the field-service software world Aquant now targets with AI.
Melochna co-founded Aquant in 2016 and serves as President, helping shape the company's product focus on service and its enterprise go-to-market.
Product walkthroughs and founder conversations on Aquant's channels.
Aquant builds agentic AI purpose-built for servicing complex equipment. It turns a company's service data and expert knowledge into AI agents that guide technicians, call-center agents, customers and service leaders in real time.
Global manufacturers and service organizations in industrial equipment, medical devices, manufacturing and high-tech - including Siemens, Stryker, Hologic, Cytiva, John Deere, Beckman Coulter, Makino, Terex and JLG.
Aquant was founded in 2016 in New York by Shahar Chen (CEO) and Assaf Melochna (President).
Roughly $112M+ across Seed, Series A ($10M, Lightspeed), Series B ($30M, Insight Partners) and a $70M Series C led by Qumra Capital, Insight Partners and Pitango Growth in 2021.
Aquant is trained specifically on service data - error codes, schematics, service logs and expert knowledge - and plugs into workflows and systems like Salesforce, giving equipment-specific answers rather than generic ones.