Strataphy, a deep technology company that aims to change the way AI and industrial infrastructure is cool that AI and industrial infrastructure has received a VC-led seed funding round with PLUSVC (+ VC).
The capital injection will support the company’s efforts to develop its technology, expand its full service stack, and expand its engineering and operations teams. The push comes as strataphy prepares for new deployments across giga projects, industrial facilities, and hyperscale data centers in the Mena region and other countries.
Cooling has emerged as one of the major challenges in hypererscale expansion and industrial development, especially in tropical climates where it accounts for 50% of total electricity consumption in all sectors. The challenge is rife in the Middle East, which represents one of the fastest growing cooling markets in the world – worth more than $120 billion a year, including $13 billion in Saudi Arabia alone.
Stratafty’s solution is built around its proprietary ™ subsurface bustrusurface technology, which delivers deep, robust power that excels at cooling infrastructure while using far less energy than conventional systems. The platform enables industrial and commercial facilities, including data centers, to reduce energy consumption, cut operating costs, and meet growing cooling needs.
Speaking about the announcement of the Fundraise, Dr. Ammar Alali, the inventor and CEO of Strataphy, said, “Industrial and semiconductor infrastructure that keeps them cool and efficient. Our mission is to build the backbone of the next generation of cooling, which is scalable, reliable, and cost-effective. This investment will accelerate our technology, expand our team, and enable us to fulfill the demand that is passing across the region and beyond.”
Dr. Ammar Alali, who holds a PhD in world sciences and programs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mit), founded Strataphy by Ahmed Alhani. The two have worked together for more than 15 years at Saudi Aramco and other facilities, leading projects in energy exploration, geothermal systems, and power generation. This shared technology is under Primeloop, the company’s Subsurface Cooling technology that is compatible with very hot regions and is designed to overcome the limitations of geothermal systems originally designed for heating cold conditions.
The company’s clients and partners include Neom, King Abdullah Comty City, Saudi Tabreed, Ensersol, adnoc drilling, and Alfa Dhabi Holdings, among others. This inclusion reflects the demand for scalable and efficient cooling solutions in high temperature environments. Using its cooling-a-service model, stratafty transforms geothermal cooling from a high-cost investment to an operational issue, enabling organizations to operate at lower operating costs while reducing reliability.
Strataphy has already demonstrated primeloop in commercial settings, achieving energy cost savings of up to 49% compared to conventional cooling systems – proof of which is delivering reliable, and efficient cooling in some of the world’s hottest locations.
Mohammed Alsheshekah, founder and general partner at Outliner VC, shared, “cooling remains one of the pressures of extensive growth, a powerful aussurafy that adds flexibility to the extensive infrastructure. It has become the basis of cooling energy. We support the group because there is a Rethinking of the infrastructure that will shape the next decade of development.”
Shane Shin, founding partner at Shorooq, concluded, “The cooling infrastructure is the hidden area behind AI and nature. How stratafy meets the subwingle of the heating service into a heating service opens a new layer of sustainability and operation of the Region. We support strataphy because it not only solves the heat, they enable the infrastructure that will provide for the next decade.”
