Validere raises $7M in funding to bring IoT and artificial intelligence to oil & gas

Toronto-based Validere, a venture-backed oil and gas IoT and artificial intelligence platform has raised $7 million in seed funding to transform oil and gas trading and logistics through reliable data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) insights.

The round included lead investor, Sallyport Investments, alongside Y Combinator, Real Ventures, Moment Ventures, and ZhenFund. The new round of funding will fuel Validere’s U.S. expansion and further the development of Validere’s new AI-powered blending, logistics, and trading optimization platform.

Oil and gas companies currently use unreliable product quality data to make critical operational decisions. To address this problem, Validere is using Internet of Things (IoT) to radically improve confidence in product quality and AI predictive insights to guide optimal blending, logistics, and trading decisions. This optimization helps oil and gas companies get up to $9 more out of a barrel.

“More than $2T worth of crude oil is traded annually. As oil constantly changes hands, batches mix together irreversibly changing the product’s quality. The industry largely bases important operational decisions on poor quality data,” said Ian Burgess, Validere’s co-founder and CTO.

“Our platform not only informs product quality reliably and in real time, but it also uses AI to help oil and gas companies optimize product movement.”