# Omen AI 获 3100 万美元融资，用微型光谱仪实时监测数据中心液冷系统 - 来源：TechCrunch：AI（RSS） - 作者：Tim Fernholz - 发布时间：2026-06-29 21:00 - AIHOT 分数：50 - AIHOT 链接：https://aihot.virxact.com/items/cmqz93bgs00gxslurz6c0whka - 原文链接：https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/omen-ais-plan-to-optimize-data-centers-is-all-wet ## AI 摘要 数据中心液冷系统的冷却液若细菌滋生会导致堵塞，需停机数小时冲洗，单次损失达数百万美元。Omen AI 开发微型光谱仪，实时监测冷却液中的细菌生长，并检测铜、铬等磨损颗粒以预警泵体或密封件故障，替代传统送样检测。公司今日宣布完成 3100 万美元 A 轮融资，由 Nava Ventures 领投，CRV、Vanderbilt University、Mann+Hummel 等跟投。Omen AI 由 Zach Laberge 于 2024 年创立，已与十余家数据中心客户合作，包括使用 AMD 芯片的 AI 计算云公司 TensorWave。 ## 正文 The first StrictlyVC of 2026 hits SF on April 30. Tickets are going fast. Register now. Close **Image Credits:**Omen AI / Omen AI AI Omen AI’s plan to optimize data centers is all wet Tim Fernholz 6:00 AM PDT · June 29, 2026 The AI-driven demand for compute power has data centers looking to squeeze more from every rack of GPUs. One consequence? Bacterial outbreaks. The liquid for liquid-cooled chips is a mixture of water and a substance that inhibits bacteria growth. To run the chips hotter, data center managers can change the mix to include more water, which absorbs heat better, but leads to nasty contamination that clogs the flow. To solve that, they flush the system, which can mean shutting down a rack for five or six hours at a potential cost of millions of dollars. Omen AI has a solution: A tiny spectrometer that can monitor that fluid health in real time, spotting bacterial growth before it becomes a massive problem. “You’re not risking huge amounts of downtime because you have no insight into what’s going on chemically,” explains CEO and founder Zach Laberge. Today, Omen AI said it raised a $31 million Series A round, led by Nava Ventures and including participation from CRV, Vanderbilt University, Mann+Hummel, Starhill Holdings, Hard Launch Capital, as well as personal investments from executives at Bridgestone, GM, Johnson Controls, and Tensorwave. Laberge founded his first company in 2020 when he was 14, raising $3 million to install sensors on construction equipment and ultimately dropping out of high school. (His father and mother, a former Minister of Education for Ontario, were supportive of his plan to carve his own path.) After that startup shut down, Laberge started Omen in 2024, with the idea of focusing on fluid systems as they key to enabling construction machinery smart enough to know when it needed to be fixed. The idea was to replace the time-consuming process of extracting samples and sending them to a lab with real-time awareness. Besides bacterial growth, the device can spot pumps and pumps wearing out if it sees copper or chromium, or seals if it sees silicon. Caterpillar dealerships were a key early customer for Omen’s heavy vehicles business, but Cat is also a major supplier of gas-powered turbines and generator to provide on-premises power for data centers. It didn’t take long for Omen to see where the wind was blowing. Why everyone from OpenAI to SpaceX is building their own chips (and turning up the heat on Nvidia) | Equity Podcast 0 seconds of 36 minutes, 3 seconds Volume 0% Press shift question mark to access a list of keyboard shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts Enabled Disabled Shortcuts Open/Close/ or ? Play/Pause SPACE Increase Volume↑ Decrease Volume↓ Seek Forward→ Seek Backward← Captions On/Off c Fullscreen/Exit Fullscreen f Mute/Unmute m Decrease Caption Size- Increase Caption Size+ or = Seek %0-9 Live “That was kind of the transition,” Laberge told TechCrunch. About six months ago, “a lot of the dealerships were saying, ‘Hey, we’re starting to put sensors on our turbines, can you guys do anything on the building side of things?’” Omen discovered that those buildings are full of fluid, from their HVAC systems to their chip cooling. Spotting a new, fast-growing group of potential customers, Omen began to focus on data centers. “It’s rare to see such a young founder who has the respect of established, large corporations in a space that moves a bit more slowly,” said Cory Rellas, a partner at Nava Ventures who sits on Omen’s board. “For Omen in particular, much of our diligence came through our introductions with large customers which quickly validated their approach.” Omen, which has raised $40 million since its founding in 2024, is working with a dozen data center customers as they build out their offering, including TensorWave, a company building an AI compute cloud on AMD chips. “The fluid running through these massive systems is a critical variable that most of the industry is flying blind on,” Piotr Tomasik, TensorWave’s president, said in a statement. “Omen [sees] the future of infrastructure exactly the way we do, better monitoring to optimally support compute customers.” While many organizations rely on mailing fluid samples to labs for insight, Omen isn’t alone in developing on-premises analytics — Pyxis, an established water-monitoring firm, rolled out its data center coolant monitoring product earlier this month. The key tech advances that unlocked this approach are recent improvements in both optical technologies and signal processing software. “Hardware is just cheap enough that it makes sense to play at scale, and then signal processing lets us make more sense out of the noise,” Laberge said.