HighByte

Industrial DataOps Softwarehighbyte.com

HighByte develops the Intelligence Hub, an edge-native Industrial DataOps platform that models, contextualizes, and orchestrates AI-ready industrial data for manufacturers and energy operators. The no-code platform serves industrial enterprises via 40+ connectors, a Unified Namespace, and MCP/i3X/REST APIs for AI agents.

Company typePrivate
Founded2021
HeadquartersPortland, United States
Headcount11–50
GTM typeB2B
OfferingSoftware

What HighByte does

HighByte is a privately held industrial software company that develops HighByte Intelligence Hub, an edge-native, no-code Industrial DataOps platform that models, contextualizes, conditions, and orchestrates industrial data so that it can be consumed by enterprise applications, cloud data platforms, and AI agents. The platform is composed of a core runtime plus tightly integrated modules — Connections (more than 40 native OT/IT connectors including OPC UA, Modbus, MQTT/Sparkplug, REST, SQL, historians, and major cloud and AI services), Conditions, Models, Pipelines, Namespaces (a visual Unified Namespace layer), an embedded MQTT Broker and UNS Client, and Enterprise Administration (SAML/AD, audit logging, Central Hub, HA). Three server interfaces — REST Data Server, MCP Services (Industrial MCP Server), and i3X Server — expose the modeled data to enterprise systems, AI agents, and CESMII i3X-compliant clients. Industrial AI is delivered through the in-app Pipeline AI Agent, AI-Generated Instances, and the embedded MCP Server, with prompts routed to customer-chosen LLMs (Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenAI, Claude).

HighByte serves industrial manufacturers and operators across energy, discrete, and process industries; named customers include ConocoPhillips, and use cases target electronic batch reporting, first-pass yield, predictive asset maintenance, and OEM cloud services. Distribution and go-to-market leverage a partner ecosystem including Siemens (Industrial Edge Marketplace), AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, AVEVA (PI System), Inductive Automation (Ignition), HiveMQ, Tulip, Kepware, and SAP, plus inclusion in Deloitte's Smart Factory @ Wichita testbed. The company is a Delaware C-corporation headquartered in Portland, Maine, with 43 employees and 220% revenue growth reported between 2022 and 2024.

The revenue model is enterprise B2B software licensing (a public pricing page exists on highbyte.com but specific tiers and contract structures are not disclosed). Capital structure shows approximately $15.5M across disclosed equity rounds, headlined by a $12M Series A led by Standard Investments, plus earlier seed funding from Maine-based investors and a 2024 SEC Form D exempt offering under Rule 506(b). The company achieved ISO 27001:2022 certification in 2025 and operates as a privately held, venture-backed business with no disclosed parent, acquisition, or change-of-control event.

HighByte firmographics

Firmographics

Name: HighByte
Legal name: HighByte, Inc.
Website: https://highbyte.com
Company type: Private
Founded year: 2021
Operating status: Operating
Headcount range: 11–50 employees
Short description: HighByte develops the Intelligence Hub, an edge-native Industrial DataOps platform that models, contextualizes, and orchestrates AI-ready industrial data for manufacturers and energy operators. The no-code platform serves industrial enterprises via 40+ connectors, a Unified Namespace, and MCP/i3X/REST APIs for AI agents.
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HighByte industry classification

Industry

Product category: Industrial DataOps Software
NAICS: Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415), Computer Systems Design Services (541512), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Custom Computer Programming Services (541511)
SIC: Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)
akta.pro primary industry: Data & Analytics Operations Outsourcing (DataOps / MLOps) (BPAEAMAH)
akta.pro secondary industries: AI/ML Solution Integration & MLOps Enablement (BPAEAAAJ), Observability, Monitoring & AIOps (BPAEAKAG), Data Warehouse Appliances & Integrated Systems (HDAEABAE)

Keywords

Industrial DataOps software
Industrial AI infrastructure
Edge data orchestration
Unified Namespace platform
OT/IT data integration

Where HighByte is headquartered

Location

Headquarters

HQ city: Portland
HQ country: United States
HQ region: North America

Markets served

HighByte business model

Business model

GTM type: B2B
Offering type: Software
Cost components: Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

HighByte product offering

Product offering

Core offering

HighByte sells HighByte Intelligence Hub, an edge-native, no-code Industrial DataOps software platform that ingests raw plant-floor data via 40+ native OT/IT connectors, models and contextualizes it into asset/process instances, orchestrates dataset flow through a visual pipeline builder, and delivers AI-ready industrial data to enterprise systems, cloud warehouses, and AI agents via REST, MCP, and i3X server interfaces. The Ignition Module is offered as a separate add-on for deep bidirectional interoperability with Ignition by Inductive Automation.

Product overview

HighByte offers a single unified Industrial DataOps platform, HighByte Intelligence Hub, composed of a core edge-native runtime plus a set of tightly integrated modules and API products. The platform is delivered as a codeless, no-code solution deployed at the edge or as a Docker container. Its Connections module (with more than 40 native connectors including the Ignition Module) handles OT/IT data ingestion and publishing; Conditions aggregates, deadbands, and transforms raw data; Models standardize and contextualize assets, processes, and systems; Pipelines orchestrate dataset flow using a graphical builder and an in-app Pipeline AI Agent; Namespaces design and govern a Unified Namespace; the embedded MQTT Broker and UNS Client deliver a complete UNS infrastructure; and three server interfaces — REST Data Server, MCP Services (Industrial MCP Server), and i3X Server — expose modeled data to enterprise applications, AI agents, and any i3X-compliant client. Enterprise Administration adds Central Hub, SAML/Active Directory, audit logging, Git Backup, and High Availability for multi-site scale, while Industrial AI ties these capabilities together for generative and agentic AI use cases.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

HighByte Intelligence Hub: HighByte's flagship Industrial DataOps software solution for modeling, contextualizing, orchestrating, and delivering AI-ready industrial data at the edge.

Products and services

HighByte Intelligence Hub Edge-native, no-code Industrial DataOps platform for industrial data modeling, orchestration, and governance. Provides contextualized, AI-ready industrial data from the plant floor to enterprise and cloud systems, with integrated modules for Connections, Conditions, Models, Pipelines, Namespaces, embedded MQTT Broker and UNS Client, and REST/MCP/i3X server interfaces. Targeted at industrial manufacturers, process operators, and OEMs.
Ignition Module for HighByte Intelligence Hub Native bidirectional add-on module for the Intelligence Hub that provides deep interoperability with Ignition by Inductive Automation as both a SCADA data source and IIoT destination, enabling browse, read, write, UDT and tag provider creation, and synchronization with AVEVA PI System Asset Framework. Targeted at industrial customers using Ignition SCADA alongside the Intelligence Hub.

Companies that use HighByte

Customer profile

Ideal customer profiles1 record

HighByte technology and API

Technology

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API: Yes
API docs
API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration56 records

AI capability8 records

HighByte partnerships and signals

Strategic signal

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

HighByte competitors and assessment

Company assessment

Direct peers

HiveMQ: HiveMQ is a featured MQTT broker partner of HighByte and competes with HighByte's Embedded MQTT Broker in the Unified Namespace / industrial MQTT infrastructure category.
Litmus Automation: Litmus offers an edge industrial DataOps platform (Litmus Edge) for connecting, contextualizing, and computing on OT data — directly competing with HighByte Intelligence Hub in the same industrial data contextualization and pipeline category.
Crosser: Crosser provides a no-code edge analytics and streaming DataOps platform for industrial and IoT use cases, closely overlapping with HighByte's edge pipeline and conditioning capabilities.
Seeq: Seeq delivers time-series analytics, data contextualization, and pipeline workflows on top of industrial historians — competing with HighByte's Conditions, Models, and Pipelines modules in process manufacturing use cases.
Inductive Automation (Ignition): Inductive Automation's Ignition SCADA/MES platform is both a data source and an integration target for HighByte (via the native Ignition Module), and competes with HighByte in OT data contextualization and pipeline orchestration for industrial customers.

Emerging players

Tulip: Tulip is a featured partner and frontline operations platform that, like HighByte, sits between OT and IT systems, providing data contextualization and pipelines for manufacturing use cases such as first-pass yield and operator workflows.

Broad incumbents

AVEVA: AVEVA's PI System and CONNECT platform are core industrial data infrastructure competitors, and HighByte integrates natively with PI — placing AVEVA in a partner/competitor overlap as the dominant industrial historian and data operations provider.
PTC: PTC's ThingWorx and Kepware offerings cover industrial connectivity, edge data contextualization, and pipeline workflows overlapping with HighByte's Connections, Models, and Pipelines modules at much larger enterprise scale.
Siemens (Industrial Edge / MindSphere): Siemens is both a strategic partner (Industrial Edge Marketplace) and broad incumbent, with Industrial Edge and MindSphere providing native data contextualization and pipeline capabilities that compete with HighByte inside Siemens' installed base.
Databricks: Databricks is a featured partner for industrial data publishing but also a broad incumbent in the lakehouse / data platform category where HighByte's Industrial AI and data-substrate layer compete for ownership of the OT-to-analytics pipeline.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

HighByte compliance and trust

Trust signal

Compliance1 record

HighByte financial estimates

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

HighByte leadership team

Management profile

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

HighByte funding detail

Funding detail

Funding overview

Funding rounds9 records

Investors8 records

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HighByte M&A and investment

M&A and investment

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about HighByte

What does HighByte do?

Is HighByte a public or private company?

HighByte is a private company. It is classified as venture growth investor backed and is currently operating.

When was HighByte founded?

HighByte was founded in 2021. It employs 11 to 50 people.

Where is HighByte based?

HighByte is headquartered in Portland, United States, in the North America region.

Who are HighByte's main competitors?

Direct peers on record are HiveMQ, Litmus Automation, Crosser, Seeq and Inductive Automation (Ignition). Tulip is listed as an emerging player. Broad incumbents are AVEVA, PTC, Siemens (Industrial Edge / MindSphere) and Databricks.

Does HighByte have an API?

Yes. HighByte Intelligence Hub exposes industrial data through multiple server interfaces. The REST Data Server is an HTTP(S) REST API gateway that reads from and writes to industrial data in OT systems; the MCP Server (Model Context Protocol, an open standard originally developed by Anthropic) exposes data pipelines as 'tools' that AI agents can invoke; the i3X Server (an open, vendor-agnostic standard developed by a CESMII working group including HighByte CTO Aron Semle) browses, reads, writes, and subscribes to modeled industrial data. The REST Data Server is governed by role-based security and can be used with Callable Pipelines to build a custom 'Industrial Data API Builder.' The Configuration API enables CI/CD by programmatically exporting/importing project configurations. The product supports JWT bearer and session authentication for the REST Data Server. No rate limits or sandbox are described. Developer documentation is at guide.highbyte.com.

What industry is HighByte in?

HighByte's product category is Industrial DataOps Software. Its primary akta.pro industry code is BPAEAMAH, Data & Analytics Operations Outsourcing (DataOps / MLOps), with a secondary code of BPAEAAAJ, AI/ML Solution Integration & MLOps Enablement. Its NAICS code is 5415 and its SIC code is 7372.