Undisclosed · Growth/Late · Software · Miami, US
Pelico, a Paris-founded manufacturing orchestration software company headquartered in Miami, has secured an undisclosed strategic investment from AE Ventures, the venture arm of AE Industrial Partners. Announced on 23 July at the Farnborough International Airshow, the partnership is intended to accelerate Pelico's North American expansion and connect it with AE Industrial's aerospace and defence network. Financial terms were not disclosed.
A distribution partner for factory software
Pelico sells an execution layer for complex manufacturers. Its platform connects data from supply, production, inventory, quality, maintenance and customer systems, then maps how a late part, quality hold or capacity change affects builds and delivery commitments. The company says factory teams can compare recovery options and coordinate actions without replacing their ERP, planning or manufacturing systems.
That makes AE Ventures potentially useful as a distribution partner as well as a capital provider. Selling into aerospace factories requires more than a software demonstration: vendors have to navigate security reviews, system integration and plant-level adoption. AE Industrial's portfolio and network may give Pelico warmer access to OEMs, suppliers and operators. If that access turns into repeatable deployments, Pelico can shorten the path from an initial site to a wider production network; if each rollout remains highly bespoke, services capacity will remain a constraint.
Boeing provides a concrete deployment test
A day before the investment announcement, Pelico announced a project agreement with Boeing for C-17 heavy maintenance. The companies said Pelico's platform will be used as a shared, AI-enabled workspace connecting supply, engineering, planning and depot operations, and is expected to replace fragmented spreadsheet-driven processes. This is an announced project, not a completed outcome, but it builds on an earlier Boeing Global Services commercial spare-parts deployment that Pelico says reduced backlog and improved operational efficiency.
Pelico also says Boeing, Safran and Daikin have deployed its software in as little as 12 weeks, with customers reporting average reductions of 40% in parts shortages and cycle times and a 15% improvement in on-time delivery. Those are company-reported figures, but they frame the execution standard behind the new partnership: expansion depends on reproducing deployment speed and operating results across AE's network, not merely adding logos.
The company was founded in Paris in 2019 and raised $40m in 2025, taking its disclosed total at that time to $72m. Because the AE Ventures investment is undisclosed, it should not be added to that total.
Explore this theme
Industrial robotics is a deployment problem, not just an AI challenge — EUVC · 15 October 2026. The article's argument that deployment speed, reliability and operating design matter more than a strong demo provides a useful lens for Pelico's 12-week rollout claim. Added 27 October 2026.
