Holy Technologies, a deeptech startup pioneering AI-driven autonomous manufacturing, has raised €4.3M to build what it calls the world’s first fully autonomous factory for lightweight components in Hamburg.
The round drew backing from Rockstart, Vanagon Ventures, SANDS, Innovationsstarter Fonds Hamburg, and EIT Manufacturing, alongside a group of prominent angels including Adrian Locher (Merantix AG), Matthias Dantone (Ellipsis Ventures), Christian Vollmann (C1), Markus Kerkhoff (Poppe+Potthoff), Kai Müller (PowerCo), and Timm Moll (Moll Gruppe).
Building Europe’s Autonomous Manufacturing Future
Holy Technologies, founded in 2022 by CEO Bosse Rothe Frossard and CTO Moritz Reiners, is addressing one of Europe’s biggest industrial bottlenecks: the continued reliance on manual composite manufacturing and offshore supply chains.
Lightweight components are critical across mobility, aerospace, energy, and logistics—reducing fuel consumption, extending range, and improving efficiency. Yet most are still produced with outdated, manual processes. Holy’s platform replaces these with AI-driven robotic systems, enabling scalable, autonomous, and circular production.
Its system is designed to process carbon fibre, glass, aramid, and natural fibres, while integrating closed-loop recycling to recover materials for reuse in equivalent applications. The result: faster development cycles, lower costs, and higher sustainability.
“The race to restore Europe’s industrial edge is on,” said Bosse Rothe Frossard, CEO & Co-Founder of Holy Technologies. “This funding helps us scale our system to deliver what our customers need most: radically better components, at the highest speed.”
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Investor Confidence in Deeptech Manufacturing
Backers view Holy as a paradigm shift for Europe’s industrial competitiveness.
“Holy Technologies is changing the game. Their platform enables lightweight components at scale, with applications from aerospace to energy,” said Gem Kua, Investment Manager at Rockstart.
“Holy’s operating system transforms standard hardware into highly scalable, flexible autonomous production lines—cost-competitive with overseas production, while delivering higher product performance and enabling full material circularity,” added Susanne Fromm, General Partner at Vanagon Ventures.
From Formula 1 to Industrial Scale
Since its founding, Holy has:
- Built a pilot production line
- Signed offtake agreements for thousands of components
- Partnered with OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers across automotive, motorsports, industrial tools, and orthopaedics
In a project with a Formula 1 team, Holy validated a 20% weight reduction compared to incumbent parts, proving performance gains.
Looking forward, the Hamburg-based startup will use the new capital to launch its first autonomous factory, scale production capacity, and expand partnerships with European and global manufacturers.
“Autonomous manufacturing is not just about efficiency. It enables a new category of components that outperform on weight, performance, and sustainability,” said Moritz Reiners, CTO & Co-Founder of Holy Technologies. “But the path to autonomy is complex—it requires systems built from scratch to deliver it. That is exactly what we are building.”
