SPREAD AI, a Berlin-based Engineering Intelligence Platform innovating how complex products are developed and operated, today announced it has raised €25 million ($30 million) in Series B funding to expand across Europe and the U.S., scale within the Salesforce ecosystem, and strengthen its presence in aerospace, defense, and heavy machinery sectors.
The round was backed by new investors, including DTCP Growth, IQT, OTB Ventures, Salesforce and Thesiger Capital, as well as angel investors such as Christian Schulz, former CFO of TRATON. Existing investors, including HV Capital and NAP, continued to provide strong support.
This follows SPREAD AI’s €14.6 million Series A in 2023, as covered by EU-Startups.
SPREAD’s co-founder and co-CEO Robert Göbel says: “Working with Salesforce gives us the reach to bring Engineering Intelligence to the industrial companies that need it most: the teams developing, operating or servicing defense systems, vehicles, and industrial machinery.
“Together, we’re making sense of industrial data scattered across a sprawl of legacy systems with our AI-native data foundation that lets engineering, sales and service teams decide and act with speed and confidence. This is Industrial AI delivering tangible impact.”
2026 has seen several funding rounds in industrial AI, manufacturing data infrastructure, physical AI, robotics and adjacent enterprise AI sectors.
Germany has been particularly active, with United Manufacturing Hub raising €5 million in Cologne to build a foundational data layer for global manufacturing, Sereact securing a €93 million Series B in Stuttgart to scale its physical AI offering for warehouses and manufacturing, FLEXOO raising €11 million in Heidelberg to expand its physical AI sensor platform for battery storage and automotive use cases, and Cognee landing €7.5 million in Berlin to develop enterprise-grade AI memory infrastructure.
Outside Germany, adjacent activity includes
- UK: Isembard in London, which raised €43 million to scale software-powered factories for aerospace and energy; Encord in London, which raised €50 million to support AI-native data infrastructure for physical AI; Polaron in London, which raised €6.7 million to develop an intelligence layer for materials science across automotive and energy; and Stanhope AI in London, which raised €6.7 million for adaptive AI in robotics, defence and industrial automation.
- Elsewhere: Trener Robotics in Norway and the U.S., which secured €26 million to expand its AI robot skills platform for manufacturing; Mandel AI in Sofia, which raised €3.6 million to automate supplier coordination and disruption management for manufacturers.
These comparable rounds amount to over €252 million.
This places SPREAD AI’s Series B within a 2026 funding environment in which industrial and enterprise AI companies are attracting capital for data infrastructure, engineering workflows, manufacturing automation, robotics and defence-adjacent systems.
Achyut Jajoo, GM Agentforce Automotive, Manufacturing and Consumer Goods Industries Products at Salesforce, adds: “Industrial companies hold decades of engineering knowledge trapped in disconnected systems and data sources.
“When you combine Agentforce 360 for Manufacturing or Automotive, which includes Salesforce’s industry-specific data models, workflows, apps, Data 360 and Agentic AI, with SPREAD’s deep product and engineering intelligence, sales, operations and customer service teams can make the right decisions fast. We’re excited to work together with SPREAD to unlock even bigger impact for our customers.”
Founded in 2019 by Philipp Noll and Robert Göbel, SPREAD began with the belief that engineering decisions are only as good as the data behind them. Among their product offering stands their Engineering Intelligence Platform, which is used by clients to accelerate development, reduce costs, improve product quality, and increase uptime.
The Engineering Intelligence Platform integrates and contextualises all product-related data across the lifecycle, from early design decisions through production and field operations. Connecting structured and unstructured data across enterprise systems-covering product design, software, manufacturing, and operations-to deliver living “Product Twins” that empower decision-makers to see interdependencies, assess trade-offs in real time, and act faster with confidence.
Across deployments for leading manufacturers, SPREAD has reportedly delivered up to 30% faster development cycles, 75% faster engineering troubleshooting, and tens of millions of euros in annual cost savings
Marcin Hejka, co-founder and General Partner of OTB Ventures, says: “Unlocking the engineering intelligence buried in industrial legacy systems is one of the biggest opportunities in enterprise AI. SPREAD has the domain depth and the AI-native platform to define this category. We’re proud to lead this round.”
Today’s investment deepens the relationship between SPREAD and Salesforce, bringing together SPREAD’s Product Truth with Salesforce’s Customer 360 to help manufacturers close the “execution gap” between customer expectations, engineering, and operational capabilities.
Deepening this relationship enables immediate capabilities – including Intelligent Case Resolution – that trace customer support issues directly to engineering root causes: Integrated Sales Engineering that qualifies and quotes feature changes based on real technical feasibility and Proactive Quality Management that identifies exactly which high-value customers are impacted and for what scope when a defect is discovered.
“This isn’t just about better software, it’s about competing at the speed these times demand,” adds SPREAD’s co-founder and co-CEO Philipp Noll. “Global manufacturers have spent decades building world-class products. They deserve an AI-native foundation that respects their engineering data and standards, and future-proofs the operational excellence that sets them apart. That’s the partner we’re committed to being, bringing deep domain expertise to deliver measurable impact fast, whether that’s mitigating billions in risk from a delayed production launch, stemming rising warranty costs, or slashing time to market in half.”
Read the orginal article: https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/04/as-europe-pushes-for-ai-sovereignty-germanys-spread-raises-e25-million-to-scale-industrial-ai/
