Isometric, a London-based startup, has closed a $40m Series A funding round to expand its AI-powered certification platform across the industrial sector, targeting industries from carbon removal to low-carbon energy and advanced materials.

The company's platform, Certify, uses AI agents to process the volumes of data that underpin industrial certification claims. Sensor readings, satellite data, supply chain records and laboratory results are cross-referenced automatically, with discrepancies flagged for human review. The system is designed to work alongside human verifiers, handling the routine data checks that currently consume most of the time in a standard certification review. Rather than replacing specialist judgement, the AI reduces the volume of material that requires it, allowing human verifiers to concentrate on the cases where expertise is genuinely necessary.

Certification in industrial sectors has long been a slow and costly undertaking. Companies operating across energy transition, carbon reduction and advanced materials are required to validate their projects against a range of regulatory, safety and sustainability standards, a process that typically takes months to complete. The pace has constrained project timelines and added significant cost, particularly for companies in sectors where certification is a prerequisite for market access or regulatory compliance. Isometric contends that the procedure has essentially not altered in decades and that the emergence of competent AI agents now allows for acceleration without compromising the outcome's dependability.sometric argues that the process has remained largely unchanged for decades, and that the arrival of capable AI agents now makes acceleration possible without reducing the reliability of the outcome.

The Series A was led by AVP, with all of Isometric's existing institutional investors participating, including Lowercarbon Capital and Plural. Personal investment in the round came from John Doerr, chairman of Kleiner Perkins, and Walter Kortschak. The breadth of participation from existing backers is notable, suggesting confidence in the platform's commercial progress since its earlier funding rounds.

Proceeds will be used to accelerate the expansion of Isometric's AI-enabled services. The company has not disclosed specific targets for headcount or geographic reach at this stage, though the scale of the round indicates ambitions that extend beyond its current operational footprint.

Eamon Jubbawy, Isometric's founder and chief executive, said the certification industry had historically faced a fundamental choice between speed and rigour. "For decades, the certification industry faced a trade-off between speed and rigour — do it fast or do it right," he stated. "With Isometric, industrial companies can get both. AI agents are here, and they're making the certification process instant and invisible, unleashing the potential of the industrial economy." Isometric tells industrial clients that delaying accreditation is a structural inefficiency as opposed to an essential characteristic of regulated sectors, and that doing so releases project worth that otherwise would be unattainable.

Demand for faster certification infrastructure is being shaped by broader conditions in the industrial economy. Investment in decarbonisation, clean energy and low-carbon materials has grown substantially over recent years, and with it the volume of projects requiring regulatory and standards validation. Manual processes have not scaled at the same rate. Certification teams working through millions of individual data points by hand face an expanding backlog as the number of projects requiring sign-off continues to rise. Platforms that can automate routine verification work without sacrificing auditability are therefore addressing a gap that is widening, not contracting.

Isometric occupies a specific position in that landscape. Instead of trying to completely eliminate human supervision, its emphasis on AI agents that function inside an already-existing human verification framework may facilitate the platform's adoption in industries where regulators continue to have a keen interest in the certification decision-making process. Whether that approach proves sufficient as industrial clients demand faster turnarounds remains to be seen, but the investor backing secured in this round reflects a reasonable expectation that the market for what Isometric is building will continue to grow.