Karim Pourak
Co-Founder & CEO
Karim co-founded ProcessMiner after 3 decades building and commercializing software, including 2 earlier AI health analytics ventures. He leads the work to improve quality and cut waste.
A decade of AI built for process industries and manufacturing.
ProcessMiner is the physical AI platform for continuous manufacturing, built by people who worked on plant floors. Paper mills have run it since 2015, and it now runs in nonwovens and water.
Where this came from
A software operator and a research lab
ProcessMiner was founded in 2015 by Karim Pourak, who has spent 3 decades building software, and Kamran Paynabar, a Georgia Tech professor. Kamran's research on statistical modeling of industrial data is the foundation the platform runs on. That pairing still shapes our work with plants: your process knowledge, our models.
- Chaired Georgia Tech professor, published in Technometrics and IIE Transactions.
- Headquartered in Atlanta's Tech Square, with an office in Espoo, Finland.
- Seed round led by Titanium Innovation Investments, April 2026.
Trusted on the floor at leading manufacturers
Track record
Longevity you can reference-check
“We’re a pioneer in AI for continuous manufacturing. We’ve been running in plants since 2015, and customers from those first years still run the platform today.“
Paraphrasing Karim Pourak, Co-Founder & CEO of ProcessMiner
10+
Years in production plants
Since 2015
50+
Plant deployments
Pulp & paper, nonwovens, water
20+
Major paper manufacturers
Where the models were proven
Team
The people behind the platform
Kamran Paynabar, Ph.D.
Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
A professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Fouts Family Chair holder, Kamran leads ProcessMiner’s data science. Models are built in-house and validated against real production outcomes.
Tom Morris
Global Chief Financial Officer
Tom brings more than a decade in audit, financial advisory and controllership, including roles at Urjanet and The North Highland Company. He leads financial strategy for ProcessMiner’s growth.
Board of Directors
Board of Advisors
Markku Mustonen
Co-Founder, Business Advisor
Chris Luettgen
Science Advisor
Bill Woodall
Science Advisor
Bianca Colosimo
Science Advisor
Stephen Vasconcellos
Science Advisor
Questions, answered
Frequently asked questions
Who owns ProcessMiner, and how is it funded?
ProcessMiner is a privately held company founded in 2015. In April 2026 it announced its first external funding, a seed round led by Titanium Innovation Investments, to deepen its pulp and paper business and grow in the other process industries it serves.
Who leads ProcessMiner?
Co-founders Karim Pourak (CEO) and Kamran Paynabar, Ph.D. (Chief Science Officer), with Tom Morris as Global CFO. The company is headquartered in Atlanta’s Tech Square, next to Georgia Tech, where its research roots are, with an office in Espoo, Finland.
How long have customers been running the platform?
Since 2015. Customers from the first years are still running it. The platform has 50+ plant deployments, and over 20 major paper manufacturers use it today, alongside deployments in nonwovens and water.
Is ProcessMiner a software company or a services company?
A software company with operational roots. The platform is licensed software, connected to your historian in about 30 minutes when your data is ready and your team has completed the preparation work, and deployed as fast as 2 weeks. Our team handles connection, deployment, and model validation; day to day, your own operators and process engineers run it, building and reviewing their models in PM Studio.
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