The company

We don't just understand the problem. We are the users.

April Tech was founded by a materials science engineer and a software engineer who spent years staring at the same spreadsheet-and-paper monitoring systems we're now replacing. Built in California. Built for the floor.

Our mission

To make every factory intelligent — not just the largest 2%.

Industrial AI has been a Fortune 500 story for fifteen years. The companies who could spend $200,000 on a process analytics suite got smarter. Everyone else got told to wait for prices to come down.

April was built to end that asymmetry. Software-only, PLC-direct, accessible to the 50,000+ small and mid-size US plants who still run on Excel — and architected to scale up with them as they grow.

WHAT WE BELIEVE

Process data belongs to the plant that generates it.

Your data trains your models. Nobody else's.

The best industrial software ships in days.

Long deployments mean someone is solving the wrong problem.

AI should explain itself in operator language.

If your engineers can't act on an alert, the alert didn't happen.

Small plants deserve the same tools as big ones.

Access is a choice, not a constraint.

The team

Engineers, building for engineers.

A founding team with deep industrial experience and the technical chops to build it.

Pranav Sawant

CEO & Co-Founder

Owns vision and operations. Background in manufacturing and process improvement.

Snehal Nakadi

CTO & Co-Founder

Owns product and engineering. 7+ years building software for industrial environments.

Arnesh Kundu

CSO & Co-Founder

Owns growth, strategy, and partnerships. Focused on customer relationships and commercial foundations.

Talk to the founders

Customer or partner — we'd love to talk.

Every email gets a response from one of us. No SDR funnel, no calendar gauntlet — just a real conversation.

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