Berlin-based Zentio has closed a €1.4 million pre-seed funding round led by HTGF, with additional support from SIVentures. Alongside capital, the investors will provide strategic and operational support for Zentio’s next phase of growth.
Industrial companies make thousands of decisions every day, from minor operational adjustments to major strategic shifts, and each choice can trigger ripple effects across the entire value chain. A change in shift scheduling, for example, influences machine utilisation, which affects inventory levels, cash flow, and storage costs. These decisions are highly interdependent, yet no single person or existing system can fully oversee and simulate all these impacts in real time.
Most companies lack the resources to analyse every scenario, leading to suboptimal planning, reduced productivity, capital tied up in inventory, missed delivery deadlines, and underused capacity. To move beyond simply digitising existing processes, manufacturers need a new approach that fundamentally changes how decisions are made.
Zentio addresses this by enabling AI-native, real-time production planning. Its system structures and centralises operational, machine, and production data through AI agents, creating a self-learning flywheel effect. This depth of shopfloor-level insight helps factories turn operational data into a strategic asset, enhancing productivity, adaptability, and decision-making at scale.
As Immo Polewka, co-founder and CCO at Zentio, explains, the best way to bridge this gap is by 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 allows decision-makers to anticipate capacity needs weeks in advance, respond to machine breakdowns or material shortages with the best available options, and adjust shift schedules or machine settings in real time to increase output and minimise idle time.
Founded in 2025, Zentio is working with a network of 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 enable Zentio to deepen existing partnerships and lay the groundwork for long-term impact across European manufacturing.
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