Zentio Secures €1.4M For AI-native Production Planning

Industrial companies face thousands of daily decisions, from minor adjustments to major strategic shifts, each creating ripple effects across the value chain. For instance, a change in shift scheduling impacts machine utilization, inventory levels, cash flow, and storage costs. These interdependent decisions are difficult to fully oversee or simulate in real time.

Most companies lack resources to analyze every scenario, resulting in suboptimal planning, lower productivity, tied-up capital, missed deadlines, and underused capacity. Simply digitizing existing processes isn’t enough manufacturers need a fundamentally new approach to decision-making.

Zentio solves this challenge with AI-native, real-time production planning. Its system centralizes operational, machine, and production data through AI agents, creating a self-learning flywheel. This shopfloor-level insight transforms operational data into a strategic asset, improving productivity, adaptability, and decision-making at scale.

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As Immo Polewka, co-founder and CCO at Zentio, says, the key to bridging this gap is moving forward.

Our vision is to elevate the standard of decision-making in European manufacturing. By combining operational data with mathematical optimisation and agentic automation, companies can plan ahead strategically and respond to disruptions with confidence.

This approach enables decision-makers to anticipate capacity requirements weeks ahead, respond to machine breakdowns or material shortages with optimal solutions, and adjust shift schedules or machine settings in real time boosting output and minimizing idle time.

Founded in 2025, Zentio collaborates with pilot customers and strategic partners across Europe to advance its vision of AI-native production planning.

Our main focus for the coming months is to advance our core mathematical systems and ML pipelines and tie it all together with UX and agents. To achieve this, we’re expanding our team with ambitious engineers who want to join us in building the first generation of AI-native production planning, added Christophe Kafrouni, co-founder and CTO of Zentio.

The new funding will allow Zentio to strengthen existing partnerships and build the foundation for lasting impact across European manufacturing, accelerating the adoption of AI-native, real-time production planning.

About Zentio

Zentio creates the “brain” of modern factories with an adaptive planning agent that transforms live shop-floor data into optimal, real-time schedules. Its AI-driven platform simplifies complexity, enabling flexible operations, on-time delivery, and reduced costs.