CloudRail, founded in 2013, is a German company revolutionizing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) with its innovative solution for OT to Cloud Connectivity. By offering a fully managed service for seamless data acquisition and transmission from industrial setups to the cloud, CloudRail stands out in the API and Cloud Infrastructure industries.
The company addresses both greenfield and brownfield projects by utilizing industry standards like OPC-UA to connect modern equipment and retrofitting older machines with secondary sensors. Its extensive database with over 12,000 sensor definitions, along with automated data transformation and device provisioning, significantly reduces machine-to-cloud connectivity setup time from weeks to mere hours.
Since August 2023, CloudRail has been a part of the Belden Group. Its last investment, a €540.00K Seed Round on February 2, 2018, was backed by BWM GmbH, Rheinland-Pfalz Fonds, Ulrich Turck Family Office, and Leonardo Venture. Such strategic backing highlights investor confidence in its disruptive potential and scalability in industrial data solutions.