Quality assurance German startup CERPRO raises €2 million to accelerate industrial workflows by up to 80%
Berlin’s CERPRO, an AI-based SaaS startup for industrial quality assurance, has raised around €2 million in a pre-Seed funding round to further expand product development, sales, and international market presence across Europe.
The lead investor is seed + speed Ventures, with D11Z as co-lead, and participation from EIT Manufacturing and Techstars.
Frederik Frei, CEO CERPRO: “Few areas in manufacturing are as data- and documentation-driven as quality assurance, which makes it perfectly suited for the use of AI. Together with our new partners, we aim to scale our technology across the industry and establish it as the unifying quality standard between OEMs and suppliers.”
This pre-Seed financing secured by CERPRO places the company within an active European landscape of AI-driven industrial software ventures.
Recent 2025 rounds underline this momentum: Grenoble-based TiHive raised €8 million to scale its terahertz-and-AI inspection technology for production lines; Finnish startup CloEE secured €520k in a pre-Seed round to enhance data-driven manufacturing processes; and Munich’s DRIMCO obtained €4.2 million to apply AI to requirement analysis in engineering workflows. Meanwhile, remberg closed a €15 million Series A+ to grow its AI-powered maintenance platform, and Paris-based Bonx raised €7.3 million to advance ERP solutions for manufacturers.
Together, these rounds illustrate strong investor interest in tools that digitalise and automate industrial operations – from inspection and documentation to analytics and maintenance.
CERPRO’s Berlin base also aligns it with Germany’s growing cluster of industrial-AI innovators such as DRIMCO and remberg, underlining the country’s role as a hub for next-generation manufacturing technologies.
Alexander Kölpin, Managing Director seed + speed Ventures: “We’re investing because CERPRO delivers not only speed but reliability: upload a drawing, and you get clear, error-free inspection reports. The result for industrial manufacturing is inspection documentation and processes that integrate seamlessly into existing systems. This ensures that first parts pass on the very first try, reducing scrap and complaintsm, all while saving valuable work time. That’s sustainable growth through quality.”
Founded in 2023 by Frederik Frei, Sascha Müller, and Henrik Pitz, CERPRO is building an intelligent platform that helps manufacturing companies automate and standardise their quality processes.
With its first product, QualiSpec, CERPRO aims to deliver advanced AI models for recognising and interpreting technical drawings. The software automates inspection and documentation workflows and creates a unified data foundation connecting OEMs and suppliers. Customers report up to 80% faster quality assurance processes – as per the company.
According to CERPRO, up to 30% of production issues originate not from manufacturing itself but from insufficiently designed technical drawings.
More than 100 companies across five European countries already rely on CERPRO, particularly in industries with high quality requirements such as aerospace, medical devices, and mechanical engineering.
Tom Villinger, Managing Director D11z said: “CERPRO’s artificial intelligence is setting new standards in quality assurance. The software not only reduces costs but elevates the entire inspection process to a new level. Its powerful combination of precise analysis and outstanding user experience convinced us as investors. CERPRO has the potential to become the leading technology in industrial quality assurance.”
The manufacturing industry is under pressure: labour shortages, rising costs, and increasingly strict quality requirements demand seamless and measurable processes. CERPRO argues that automating quality workflows has therefore become key to maintaining competitiveness and ensuring transparency across the supply chain.
Building on its existing AI model, the company is expanding its technology toward design and engineering, enabling potential optimisations to be identified already during product development.
Over time, the company’s aim is for the software to proactively recommend design- and manufacturing-ready drawings to further reduce downstream errors. At the same time, the platform creates a shared data foundation that connects OEMs and suppliers across company boundaries.
The long-term vision: an intelligent quality network that elevates industrial collaboration to a new level.
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