United Manufacturing Hub has secured €5 million in new funding to accelerate the development of its open-source platform designed to unify and standardise factory data.
The round was led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from seed + speed Ventures, Sustainable Future Ventures, Archimedes New Ventures, and several industry angels, including founders behind n8n and Cloudera.
The investment will be used to further strengthen UMH’s core platform, expand its engineering team, and speed up expansion across European manufacturing markets.
Addressing the data bottleneck in industrial digitalisation
Manufacturers are increasingly investing in digital tools, automation, and AI. However, many initiatives stall because production data remains locked inside proprietary systems and fragmented across machines, software, and vendors. While the global manufacturing software market exceeds $50 billion, the lack of a shared, interoperable data layer continues to slow down digital transformation and limits the practical deployment of AI.
United Manufacturing Hub tackles this challenge by consolidating factory data into a real-time industrial data hub known as a Unified Namespace. Instead of relying on fragile point-to-point integrations, the platform connects machines, sensors, and IT systems through standardised interfaces, cleans and contextualises the data, and makes it accessible to any application without custom integration work.
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Faster time to value for manufacturers
On top of its data foundation, United Manufacturing Hub enables manufacturers to deploy ready-to-use digital capabilities such as operational KPIs, energy and resource monitoring, condition-based maintenance, alerting, and industrial AI use cases. According to the company, customers typically move from initial setup to measurable business impact within weeks rather than months.
Industrial groups across different sectors are already using the platform to digitise production environments and accelerate data-driven decision-making. Users report that new data sources and digital use cases can now be connected and deployed in hours instead of weeks.
Building the backbone for industrial AI
UMH’s leadership positions the platform as a missing infrastructure layer for industrial AI. Factory environments often rely on decades-old software and proprietary protocols that lack context and interoperability. By providing a shared, open-source data foundation, UMH aims to make high-quality, contextualised industrial data available at scale for analytics, automation, and AI-driven optimisation.
From an investor perspective, the platform addresses a structural gap in the manufacturing software landscape, where no dominant global player has yet emerged to own the industrial data layer in the same way ERP or CRM platforms dominate other enterprise domains.
Next phase of growth
The newly raised capital will support deeper connectivity across machines and systems, more advanced data modelling, and the introduction of AI-driven agents on top of the Unified Namespace. United Manufacturing Hub also plans to expand partnerships with consulting firms and technology providers to accelerate adoption across Europe’s industrial base.
Team growth is planned across both engineering and go-to-market roles, as the company positions itself to scale alongside increasing demand for interoperable, AI-ready factory data.
About United Manufacturing Hub
United Manufacturing Hub is an open-source industrial data management platform designed for modern factories. It connects shop-floor equipment and IT systems, structures production data in a Unified Namespace, and enables manufacturers to rapidly build scalable digital and AI-driven use cases. Founded by Alexander Krüger and Jeremy Theocharis, the platform was created to solve the recurring challenge of accessing, cleaning, and structuring industrial data, which often consumes the majority of factory digitalisation efforts.
