InstaLILY Lauches First AI Forward Deployed Engineer
InstaLILY AI has announced a $60 million Series B round led by Energize Capita and including new investors such as Home Depot Ventures and United Rentals.
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The round brings the company's total raised to nearly $100 million, and revenue grew 5x over the past year.
Lily runs the business with people in control, and it goes live in days versus months. After launch, it keeps shipping and gets better the longer it runs.
The bottleneck in enterprise AI has shifted from the technology to deployment, which isn't a one-time event. Enterprise environments are complex and constantly in motion, including systems, data, regulations, and the models themselves. Whatever goes into them decays without something actively keeping it working.
According to InstaLILY, Lily remains deployed and keeps deploying as the business changes, so the software keeps pace rather than falling behind, offering a permanent presence instead of a revolving door.
"Every company is full of work that only it knows how to do, in sales, in operations, out in the field, work too specific for off-the-shelf software, so it runs on legacy systems and manual workarounds," said Amit Shah, Founder and CEO of InstaLILY. "Lily turns that work into software, and it is running in days, not quarters."
At a national distributor, the software Lily built finds and pursues revenue across the entire customer base beyond what any sales team could cover by hand, generating more than $200 million in new annual sales.
For an industrial supplier, pricing a complex RFQ was slow, manual work; now quotes come back faster, giving the commercial team hundreds of thousands of hours back per year.
At a field service company, a technician spent 15 minutes diagnosing each problem; now it takes under 10 seconds, and the cost to serve a call dropped 98 percent. A logistics operator that planned routes in 15 minutes now does it in 3. A services company cut the time to train a new field rep by more than 60 percent. In healthcare, administrative and operational work that used to crawl now moves in minutes.
"At our scale, enterprise AI can start falling behind the minute it goes live because the business never stops changing," said Patrick Garcia, chief digital, AI and innovation officer at SRS Distribution, part of The Home Depot family. "Lily has helped us build the software our teams need while working within the enterprise platforms, governance, and processes we've already established. That allows us to move much faster without compromising the standards required to operate at scale."
Through its work with Google DeepMind, InstaLILY built a hybrid architecture that pairs a large model for hard reasoning with a small model for fast, routine, and sensitive work, and routes each task to whichever one fits.
The small model runs close to the work on InstaLILY's Small Data Center, built with NVIDIA technology, in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge. Customer data stays private, and the system runs at lower latency, lower cost, and less energy.
Since its Series A, InstaLILY has gone live with some of the largest operators in construction, industrial distribution, logistics, and healthcare, including companies within The Home Depot family (SRS Distribution), United Rentals, ShipStation Global (Thoma Bravo, CVC Capital Partners), PartsTown, Radwell International, Henry Schein, PartsSource (Bain Capital) and Kedrion Biopharma (Permira, AIDA). The company has also opened new offices in San Francisco, London, and Toronto.
"United Rentals is focused on innovative solutions to help our customers and employees be more productive," said Tony Leopold, chief technology and strategy officer at United Rentals. "We're excited to invest in and support InstaLILY's continued growth and innovation."
Following Lily's early traction in the physical economy, InstaLILY is now expanding into every industry that runs on people, systems, and hard-won judgment. The same system behind a distributor's new revenue, a logistics team's faster routes, and a healthcare team's reclaimed time can do it for any business that fits that description. InstaLILY believes more of the economy will run on AI that gets into the business and stays there, rather than stalling in a pilot.
"To meet rising energy and manufacturing demand, industrial companies need digital infrastructure that can operate at a new level of scale and complexity," said Eileen Waris, Principal at Energize Capital, who joins InstaLILY's board of directors. "By addressing the industry's biggest constraints for AI implementation-cost, energy, latency, reliability, and speed of deployment-InstaLILY creates immediate value for customers and scales with them. We've been impressed by their customer traction and team so far, and we're excited to support them in what's next."
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