Cologne-based United Manufacturing Hub Secures €5M To Unlock Industrial Data For Modern Factories

The funding round was led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from seed + speed Ventures, Sustainable Future Ventures, Archimedes New Ventures, and notable angels including Jan Oberhauser (n8n) and Jeff Hammerbacher (Cloudera).

Alexander Krüger, CEO and co-founder of UMH, said, “Every factory runs on decades-old software – Data is trapped in proprietary protocols, siloed by vendors, missing the context that real use cases and AI depend on. We’re building the open-source data infrastructure layer that finally makes industrial data available in the quantity and quality it needs to be – ready for what comes next.

“This round lets us double down: wider connectivity, greater scale, pool and a product that works for data engineers and shop floor engineers alike.”

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UMH says the biggest barrier to digitalisation and AI in manufacturing is fragmented data. Information is often trapped in proprietary systems across machines, processes, and applications, making modernisation difficult.

Founded in 2021 by Alexander Krüger (CEO) and Jeremy Theocharis (CTO) UMH unifies industrial data into a real-time hub called Unified Namespace, replacing point-to-point integrations with a scalable interoperable system.

“The platform connects machines, sensors, and IT systems through standardised interfaces, then cleans and contextualises their data – creating a single source of truth that any application can use without custom integration work. On top of this foundation, UMH delivers ready-to-use capabilities: operational KPIs, energy and resource tracking, condition monitoring, alerting, and industrial AI applications,” UMH explained in the press release.

The new funding will be used to enhance UMH’s open-source platform, expand the engineering team, and speed up product development, including broader connectivity, advanced data modeling, and AI agents. The company also plans to deepen collaborations with consulting and technology partners to drive adoption across Europe’s industrial sector and strengthen both engineering and go-to-market capabilities.

“In areas like ERP, CRM, or HR management, billion-dollar companies have emerged. In digital manufacturing, such a player is still missing. That’s exactly our mission: We want to build the world’s leading Industrial Data Company,” said Niklas Hebborn, Chief Commercial Officer at UMH and former Partner at Freigeist Capital, where he was an early pre-Seed investor in UMH.