Munich-based regulatory technology startup Atmen has raised a €5 million seed round to expand its data-driven certification platform for industrial supply chains, aiming to bolster Europe’s industrial resilience amid global supply disruptions and intensifying decarbonisation demands.
The round was led by Project A, a Berlin-headquartered venture capital firm known for its operational support model, with participation from existing backers Revent and Vireo Ventures. Angel investors included former TÜV SÜD CEO Axel Stepken, former ThyssenKrupp CEO Martina Merz, and serial entrepreneur Christian Vollmann, an early investor in Trivago and SumUp.
The latest round brings Atmen’s total funding to €6.3 million since its founding in early 2023. Atmen offers a platform that automates sustainability certification by integrating directly into industrial workflows, allowing companies to verify product origins and environmental attributes with real-time, granular data rather than relying on periodic sampling or spreadsheets.
"European industries need reliable ways to verify products across borders and supply chains," said Flore de Durfort, Atmen’s co-founder and CEO. "We're simplifying and scaling product certification, turning a traditional bottleneck into a competitive advantage. Our platform acts as a data infrastructure layer on top of industrial supply chains, processing complete operational datasets while reducing complexity."
The company’s flagship platform, Automate, is already deployed across industrial facilities in nine countries, working with five leading certification bodies, including TÜV NORD. Clients include Lhyfe, Schneider Electric, and Energy & Regulation Partners.
As Europe pushes forward with the Clean Industrial Deal and stricter product sustainability regulations, companies in energy-intensive sectors face mounting pressure to demonstrate the carbon credentials of their products. Yet, existing certification systems - often paper-based and designed for simpler, more localised supply chains - have struggled to keep pace.
This gap is particularly evident in sectors such as hydrogen, ammonia, steel, and chemicals, where the production method dramatically affects carbon intensity but leaves no trace in the final product.
"Traditional certification methods were never designed to verify low-carbon molecules that look the same as their high-emission counterparts," said de Durfort. “This creates a fundamental challenge: the only way to prove sustainability is through data—lots of it, and in real time.”
“In a world where industrial competitiveness depends on traceable, low-carbon supply chains, Atmen is building the digital backbone that turns complex production inputs into compliant, market- and export-ready products,” said Mila Cramer, Principal at Project A.
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