Industrial data management platform United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) has raised €5 million in funding to accelerate its mission of building the foundational data layer for global manufacturing.
The round was led by KOMPAS VC, with participation from seed + speed Ventures, Sustainable Future Ventures, Archimedes New Ventures, and renowned industry angels, including Jan Oberhauser (Founder & CEO of n8n) and Jeff Hammerbacher (Founder of Cloudera), amongst others.
Manufacturers are investing heavily in digital tools and AI-driven automation. But progress stalls because data is trapped in proprietary systems and scattered across machines, processes, and applications.
UMH unifies industrial data into a real-time data hub, called Unified Namespace, replacing fragile point-to-point integrations with a scalable, interoperable structure.
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.
Customers typically go from setup to measurable business impact in weeks.
Leading industrial organisations from various industries, including HiPP, Edeka, and Böllhoff, are already using UMH to digitise their factories.
"Instead of spending months building data infrastructure from scratch, we were up and running in no time," said Lutz Hermanns, Head of PDA & Supply Chain at Böllhoff who leads Böllhoff’s Digital Manufacturing.
"We now connect new data sources and build digital use cases in hours instead of weeks."
“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," said Alexander Krüger, CEO & Co-Founder of UMH.
"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."
“Industrial AI will only scale once factories have a reliable, shared data foundation - and in manufacturing, that data lives on the factory’s shopfloor. UMH is building this foundation by turning fragmented factory data into accurate, contextualised input for modern analytics and intelligent systems, unlocking a step-change in innovation speed, giving European manufacturers the data backbone they need to compete globally,” said Andreas Winter-Extra, Partner Kompas VC
"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," says Niklas Hebborn, Chief Commercial Officer at UMH and former Partner at Freigeist Capital, where he was an early pre-seed investor in UMH.
The fresh capital will be used to strengthen UMH’s open-source platform, accelerate product development, including broader connectivity, advanced data modelling and AI agents.
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