Phaidra

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Data Center Infrastructure Management Systems Hyperscalers Integrated Design-Build

Events

• Attended Yotta 2026

%% Lossless Twenty CRM: Yotta 2026 (synced 2026-10-04) AI agents unifying telemetry across compute, power, cooling and maintenance. Products: Prism, Liquid Cooling Agent, Flex Agent, Chiller Staging Agent. Deployed by CoreWeave, Aligned, NVIDIA, Applied Digital, AirTrunk.

• Yotta touchpoint: Attending per own site

• Event Map segment: Operations Software (DCIM & AI Ops)

• Event Map: Yotta 2026 Event Map %%

Phaidra

Retrieved sources

^[1] Phaidra — https://www.phaidra.ai/

founded_year: "2019"
funding: Total funding USD 92,500,000; notable rounds include Series A (2023-10-23), Series B (2025-11-01) USD 50.0M, Venture (2024-07-02) USD 12.0M, Grants (2024-09-24), Non-equity assistance (2024-01-01)
notable_customers:
  - Aligned Data Centers (partnership announced)
name: Phaidra
headquarters:
  address: Seattle, Washington, US
  city: Seattle
  country: United States
workforce:
  total: 95
financials:
  revenueAnnual: 22000000
  fundingTotal: 92500000
  fundingLatestRound:
    name: Series b
    date: 2025-11-01
    amount: 50000000

Phaidra deploys AI agents to orchestrate power, cooling, and workload-management systems in AI factories and data centers; its Prism platform provides an LLM-first operations layer integrating with BMS, CMMS, and EPMS, alongside purpose-built agents such as a liquid-cooling agent for improving thermal and energy efficiency. ^[1]

Value Proposition & Features

Phaidra sells AI-driven operational control for data centers and other industrial facilities, aiming to improve compute availability, reliability, energy efficiency, and response to infrastructure problems. ^[1] Its target environment is the AI factory, where power, cooling, and workload behavior must be coordinated at large scale. ^[1]

• Phaidra Prism: An LLM-first operations platform that assists facility teams through natural-language interaction with infrastructure data and documentation. ^[1]

• AI agents: Purpose-built agents orchestrate power, cooling, workload management, and maintenance-related operations. ^[1]

• BMS, CMMS, and EPMS integration: The platform connects with building-management, computerized-maintenance-management, and electrical-power-monitoring systems. ^[1]

• Liquid-cooling optimization: A dedicated agent targets thermal performance and energy efficiency in liquid-cooled environments. ^[1]

• Operational intelligence: Prism analyzes infrastructure telemetry and operational context to support diagnosis and decision-making. ^[1]

• Autonomous optimization: Phaidra’s agents are designed to adjust operational systems rather than merely report metrics. ^[1]

• Workload-aware orchestration: The product coordinates facility conditions with compute and workload requirements. ^[1]

Screenshots

The publicly identified official image is a branded Open Graph asset; no three official product-interface screenshots were found in the available results.

Product Roadmap / Announcements

As of October 4, 2026,

• September 29, 2026: Phaidra announced a partnership with Aligned Data Centers to deploy Prism across Aligned’s data-center portfolio, using NVIDIA’s DSX AI Factory platform to provide AI-driven operational intelligence. [1]

• September 29, 2026: Prism was described as a read-only intelligence layer that analyzes BMS, EPMS, and other infrastructure telemetry alongside operational documentation. [1]

• September 29, 2026: Phaidra Prism integrated NVIDIA DSX Exchange as a common data layer spanning mechanical, electrical, power, cooling, and IT systems. [1]

Recent Developments

Phaidra’s most recent publicly surfaced development is its Aligned Data Centers partnership, announced September 29, 2026, to deploy Prism across Aligned’s portfolio. [1] The announcement positions Prism as a natural-language intelligence layer intended to accelerate incident response, identify early irregularities, and improve reliability. [1]

History and Origin Story

Phaidra was founded in Seattle in 2019 and initially positioned its AI control technology for industrial environments including data centers, refineries, pharmaceutical plants, and steel mills. [1] Its later focus centers on AI-factory infrastructure, with the company expanding from industrial AI control toward coordinated optimization of power, cooling, compute, and maintenance systems. ^[1]

Fundraising History

^[1] The available search results also describe the Series B as having been announced in October 2025 and total announced funding as exceeding $92.5 million. [2]

Investors identified in the available results:

• Not reliably specified in the available material.

Notable Team Members

Jim Gao is identified in Phaidra’s official news results as co-founder and chief executive officer. [3] The available material does not provide sufficiently reliable, entity-specific information to profile additional leaders without risking attribution to another company.

Market Sizing

Category, Market Size, and Category Growth

Phaidra operates across AI-factory operations software, data-center infrastructure-management software, and AI-based industrial control. ^[1] A search result describing the broader AI infrastructure market cites Morgan Stanley Research’s estimate that approximately $3 trillion will be spent on the AI build-out through 2028, with about half financed through debt or debt-like issuance; this is an AI-infrastructure estimate, not a Phaidra-specific addressable-market figure. [15]

The available results do not provide a sufficiently authoritative standalone market-size or growth estimate for Phaidra’s specific software category.

Pricing

Phaidra has no public pricing in the available sources.

Revenue Trajectory Estimates

The provided entity metadata reports annual revenue of $22 million, but the available search results do not establish the reporting period or independently verify the figure. ^[1]

Competitive Landscape

Who it's for, who it's not for

Phaidra is aimed at data-center operators and industrial-facility teams managing complex power, cooling, electrical, compute, and maintenance systems, particularly operators building or running AI factories. ^[1] Its Aligned deployment indicates a fit for multi-site operators seeking a unified operational-intelligence layer across facility portfolios. [1]

It is not primarily aimed at small businesses, ordinary office-building users, consumer IT administrators, or organizations without instrumented facility systems such as BMS or EPMS. This is an inference from the product’s stated integrations and infrastructure focus. ^[1]

Viable Alternatives

• Schneider Electric EcoStruxure: A broad data-center and industrial infrastructure-management alternative, with capabilities spanning power, cooling, monitoring, and automation.

• Siemens data-center infrastructure software: An alternative for operators seeking integrated building-management, electrical, and automation tooling.

• Vertiv software and infrastructure-management offerings: A competing option focused on data-center power, cooling, monitoring, and operational infrastructure.

• AVEVA industrial software: An alternative for industrial data integration, visualization, digital twins, and operational optimization.

• Traditional DCIM platforms: Suitable for organizations prioritizing monitoring, asset management, capacity planning, and workflow control over autonomous AI-based optimization.

The available results identify Schneider Electric, AVEVA, Siemens, Eaton, Vertiv, and Phaidra together in the AI-cluster energy-attribution and infrastructure-optimization landscape, but do not provide a reliable head-to-head win-rate comparison. [10]

Competitor Table

These companies are cited in the available market description as addressing adjacent AI-infrastructure control, power, cooling, digital-twin, and infrastructure-optimization needs. [10]

Sources

[1]: Data Center Project Tracker News [2]: Phaidra — AI Control for Data Centers | Altis Research [3]: News and Announcements | Phaidra [4]: Samsung Leads USD 1 Billion Investment in Helix [5]: YCO Cloud and Aolani partner to deliver NVIDIA cluster [6]: data center funding Archives [7]: AI infrastructure provider Crusoe valued at $30.9 billion in ... [8]: Anthropic, OpenAI Keep Expanding the AI Data Center Map — and ... [9]: Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular 'AI factories' | TechCrunch [10]: AI Cluster Energy Attribution Platforms Market to Reach USD [11]: AI data center funding - Startup Fortune [12]: Phaidra and Aligned Data Centers Partner to Empower ... [13]: Wall Street Is Growing Skeptical of the Data Center Boom [14]: News AI & Analytics - DCD - Data Center Dynamics [15]: The Latest Challenge to Data Centers? Restive Investors.

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