Sentient Science announced that Toronto, Ontario-based growth equity firm,Georgian Partners, will fund $22.5 million in a Series B, growth-stage investment in the materials science-based software as a service company. Sentients expansion in thewind-energy market,providing prognostic health monitoring and life-extension actions for fielded wind turbines will soon be available to commercial customers in theaerospaceandrailmarkets.

Funds will be used to provide new technical, security, and software capabilities withinDigitalClone Live. Operators use DigitalClone Live to understand when failures can be expected in their turbine fleet.

Capital funds will be used to provide new technical, security, and software capabilities withinDigitalClone Livefor the continuation of rapid market growth from 20,000 wind turbines to 100,000 globally, and then to one-million rotating assets as more commercial operators and suppliers in aerospace and rail come on line.

Hiring plansinclude an additional 70 employees, including a chief financial officer, vice president of software, software developers, and sales and marketing staff in the offices located in United States, Europe and China.

We incentivize our employees with pre-IPO stock options, so were very strategic in who we bring in as partners. Were very excited and proud to be working with Georgian Partners, who is another important partner on our journey to IPO, said Ward Thomas, CEO & President of Sentient Science. I am incredibly thankful to our customers in the wind, aerospace and rail markets, and for our brilliant staff and management team who are truly the smartest people in the room.

Together, they made Q2-2017 our largest sales quarter in our companys history, while promoting clean energy. I would like to thankSimon Chongof Georgian Partners, for his commitment to help us further our agenda to significantly lower the cost to operate equipment through life extension actions, said Thomas. Sentient Sciences network effect increases the demand for longer life assets and components, and ultimately changes the way the world buys and sells aftermarket products and services through our SaaS platform. This is all completely differentiated, based on materials science versus just big data from sensors.

Sentientsmanagement teamincludesEd Wagner, BS, Chief Digital Officer;Dr. Nathan Bolander,Ph.D., Chief Technology Officer;Jason Rios, MBA, VP of Aerospace;Gerald Curtin, MBA, Vice President of Asset Actions and Delivery; andAaron Russell, MBA, Finance.

Ward and his impressive team at Sentient Science have a unique technology and business model that lowers the cost of energy through supply and demand integration, said Simon Chong, Managing Partner at Georgian Partners. Their DigitalClone Live software fits perfectly with our thesis area for artificial intelligence, and we look forward to working with Sentient to expand technical capabilities and added value within the core applications.

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Sentient Science raises $22.5 million in Series B growth-stage funding with Georgian Partners - Windpower Engineering (press release)