Tech in Africa
Stone Three, a leading South African industry 4.0 technology startup has raised expansion capital from Knife Capital, a venture capital firm to purposefully enhance its enterprise product offerings and accelerate growth by putting the future of work into practice.
Stone Three combines machine learning in solving problems that increase its operational productivity and ensure people remain safer, happier, and healthier.
According to the company, the AI-augmented digital workplace offers safety solutions designed to protect both the employees and the company. This helps minimize unplanned downtime and keep the workplace safe and productive. Detection and prevention are key in avoiding dangerous and costly workplace incidents. The end-to-end AI-augmented digital productivity solutions apply in the sectors of health and workplace safety.
The company has primarily bootstrapped through its operations and shareholders. According to Derick Moolman the CEO, Stone Three partners with the firms that built the world of today through “actionable insights” and “sustainable business value from data.”
Stone Three was founded in 2000 by Francois Swanepoel and Dave Weber as a company that creates high-end signal processing solutions designed to solve real-world engineering problems. Despite the steady growth the first business focus aimed at building an enterprise software development house. Moolman and his partners later joined in 2017 and led the tranformative strategy of AI augmented solutions geared to a world where humans are safer, healtheir and more productive. The building blocks for the next phase is a strong client base, cohesive inter-disciplinary team, and exceptional technological assets.
This helped Stone Three to stand out as a preferred supplier for respected, industry multinationals embracing Industry 4.0. AI and Machine Learning in mining and manufacturing.Stone Three offers unique patented industrial solutions in addition to a highly qualified team and new funding from Knife Capital.
Knife Capital CEO Keet van Zyl described the partnership with the company as a “trust relationship” based on a previous successful exit with Derick and CSense. Derick previously ran an analytics startup CSense that was acquired in 2011 by US company GE Intelligent Platforms.
Source: Techfinancials
