CERPRO secures €2M pre-seed to set a new manufacturing quality standard

Berlin-based CERPRO, a startup for industrial quality assurance, has raised around €2 million in a pre-seed funding round. The round was led by seed+speed Ventures, with D11Z as co-lead, and participation from EIT Manufacturing and Techstars.

In many factories, engineering, quality assurance, and production still operate in silos. Documentation for incoming inspection and quality control is often created and checked manually in paper binders or Excel, leading to months-long backlogs.

With labour gaps, higher costs, and stricter standards, manufacturing needs automated, measurable workflows. Compounding the issue, up to 30 per cent of production problems originate not on the shop floor but in insufficiently specified technical drawings.

Founded in 2023 by Frederik Frei, Sascha Müller, and Henrik Pitz, CERPRO is building an intelligent platform to standardise 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 launching in December 2024, more than 100 SMEs in aerospace, medical devices, and mechanical engineering have adopted the software, reporting over 80 per cent faster quality processes, markedly fewer errors, and implementations completed in days. Beyond speeding inspection, CERPRO is extending its AI from inspection into design and engineering to flag potential issues earlier, shifting teams from reactive checks to predictive quality.

The company’s roadmap connects quality data across OEMs and suppliers to create a shared foundation for transparency and traceability.

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 capital will accelerate product development (including design-for-manufacture and predictive capabilities), expand sales, and scale CERPRO’s European market presence and partnerships, establishing a standardised, legally compliant quality workflow that links stakeholders across the supply chain.