Stuttgart-based Makersite secured €60 million in Series B funding. Lightrock and Partech co-led the round, with SE Ventures also participating. All Series A investors, including Hitachi Ventures, KOMPAS VC, Translink Capital, and Planet A, joined the investment.
Makersite will use the capital to enhance its customer offering and scale both its technology and team. This Makersite funding accelerates platform development and global impact. The company helps manufacturers make informed, sustainable decisions throughout the product design process.
Driving Product Sustainability Innovation
Founded in 2018, Makersite offers an artificial intelligence-powered platform. It assists manufacturers in understanding their supply chain data. The platform cleans, connects, and structures fragmented customer data using AI. This enriched data combines with Makersite's proprietary foundation, detailing material costs, environmental footprints, and regulatory statuses.
The platform builds digital twins of manufactured products, enabling teams to measure impacts. It identifies optimal mitigation strategies and new sourcing opportunities in real-time. Makersite also supports performance reporting for cost, carbon emissions, product compliance, and risk.
Makersite's platform helps manufacturers design safer, more compliant products.
Makersite enables manufacturers like Microsoft, Daikin, and Schneider Electric to design safer, more compliant products. The platform integrates with leading PLM systems, including Siemens’ Teamcenter and PTC Windchill, and CAD tools like Ansys and Autodesk. While larger firms like SAP and Dassault Systèmes offer broad enterprise solutions, Makersite provides specialized sustainability insights. Microsoft reduced its Surface Pro 10 carbon footprint by up to 28% in two years using Makersite.
