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AIVALIX Corporation, a University of Tokyo-born startup working to advance infrastructure maintenance using AI, has raised funds through a third-party allocation of shares to Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd. and has commenced business collaboration with the Tokyo Gas Group. This is the first instance of a business company investing in AIVALIX.
Social infrastructure, which was developed intensively during the period of rapid economic growth, is aging nationwide, and the shortage of personnel to carry out maintenance work is also becoming serious. In the “First Medium-Term Plan for National Resilience Implementation” (Cabinet decision in June 2025), the government has set a target of having 100% of water utilities introduce water and sewage DX technologies utilizing artificial satellites and AI by fiscal year 2027, making it a national challenge to pass on infrastructure to the next generation through the power of technology. AIVALIX is working to develop and provide products and solutions that support infrastructure areas such as water and sewage, gas, and plants by analyzing equipment data and inspection/failure history with AI, and providing end-to-end support from predicting deterioration and failure risks to renewal plans and even the formulation of management strategies. This investment aims to make a significant contribution to solving this social challenge by combining AIVALIX’s AI technology and speed of commercialization with the Tokyo Gas Group’s expertise in equipment management and customer base cultivated through its energy and infrastructure business.
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With this investment, the two companies will begin to fully collaborate in the water supply sector. Specifically, they will gradually add functions such as pipeline deterioration prediction and risk assessment using AIVALIX’s AI product “INFRAI” to the map and ledger management functions of “TUMSY®”, an infrastructure management solution provided by Tokyo Gas subsidiary Tokyo Gas Engineering Solutions Co., Ltd., which has a track record of being implemented by large-scale water utilities. The goal is to evolve the system from one that simply “manages” equipment information to one that supports decision-making regarding renewal investments and explanations to residents and assemblies. TGES and AIVALIX have already begun concrete discussions toward realizing this collaboration, and will continue to jointly propose solutions to water utilities, delivering practical solutions to utilities nationwide that are facing a decline in engineers and an increase in renewal demand.
Source: PRTimes
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