CERPRO Raises €2M Pre-Seed To Revolutionize Manufacturing Quality

The round was led by seed+speed Ventures, with D11Z as co-lead and additional participation from EIT Manufacturing and Techstars.

In many factories, engineering, quality assurance, and production teams still work in silos. Quality control and incoming inspection documentation is often manual, maintained in paper binders or Excel causing months-long backlogs.

With labour shortages, rising costs, and stricter standards, manufacturing urgently needs automated, measurable workflows. Compounding the problem, up to 30% of production issues arise from poorly specified technical drawings rather than shop floor errors.

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Founded in 2023 by Frederik Frei, Sascha Müller and Henrik Pitz, CERPRO is developing an intelligent platform to standardize and automate quality processes. Its first product, QualiSpec, automatically detects, interprets, and structures features from technical drawings to generate digital inspection plans in a fraction of the time.

Since its launch in December 2024 over 100 SMEs in aerospace, medical devices, and mechanical engineering have adopted QualiSpec, achieving 80% faster quality processes, fewer errors and implementations completed in days. Beyond inspections, CERPRO is extending its AI into design and engineering, enabling teams to predict issues early instead of relying on reactive checks.

Looking ahead, CERPRO aims to connect quality data across OEMs and suppliers, creating a shared foundation for transparency, traceability and improved product quality.

Frederik Frei CEO of CERPRO, said: 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.

The new funding will accelerate product development enhancing features like design-for-manufacture and predictive capabilities, while also expanding sales and scaling CERPRO’s presence across Europe. The company aims to establish a standardized, legally compliant quality workflow that connects all stakeholders across the supply chain.

About CERPRO

CERPRO GmbH is transforming manufacturing quality by converting 2D drawings into intelligent, digital inspection plans. Its software automates feature recognition, reduces errors, and enables seamless collaboration between suppliers and OEMs, delivering faster processes, higher accuracy and a connected, end-to-end quality assurance workflow across the supply chain.