Industrial data management platform United Manufacturing Hub (UMH) has raised €5 million in funding to accelerate the development of its 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 prominent industry angels including Jan Oberhauser (founder and CEO of n8n) and Jeff Hammerbacher (founder of Cloudera), among others.
The investment will enable UMH to advance its open-source data platform, expand connectivity across diverse manufacturing systems, and enhance capabilities in data modelling and industrial AI.
Solving a Core Challenge in Manufacturing Digitalisation
Manufacturers are investing heavily in digital tools, automation, and AI-driven technologies, but progress often stalls because data remains fragmented. Production information is trapped in proprietary systems, isolated across machines, software, and enterprise layers, leaving factories unable to form a complete, real-time operational picture.
UMH addresses this challenge by creating a Unified Namespace, a real-time industrial data hub that consolidates machine, sensor, and application data into a single, interoperable structure. This unified approach replaces fragile, point-to-point integrations with a scalable, standardised data foundation that enables manufacturers to use their data more effectively.
A Unified Data Foundation for the Factory of the Future
UMH’s core technology connects machines, sensors, and IT systems through standardised interfaces, then cleans, models, and contextualises the incoming data to build a single source of truth for factories.
On top of this foundation, UMH provides a suite of built-in capabilities, including:
- Operational KPIs, enabling performance visibility in throughput, uptime, and efficiency,
- Energy and resource tracking, supporting sustainability and cost optimisation,
- Condition monitoring and alerting, allowing teams to respond quickly to anomalies,
- Industrial AI applications power predictive maintenance, quality insights, and advanced analytics.
Because the platform provides both infrastructure and analytics tools, manufacturers can achieve measurable results within weeks, without extensive custom development.
Growing Adoption Among Leading Manufacturers
UMH’s platform is already used by major industrial companies, including HiPP, Edeka, and Böllhoff, to digitise their factories and scale data-driven operations.
Lutz Hermanns, Head of PDA and Supply Chain at Böllhoff, highlighted the platform’s speed and adaptability, stating, “Instead of spending months building data infrastructure from scratch, we were up and running in no time. We now connect new data sources and build digital use cases in hours instead of weeks.”
This rapid value delivery is a key reason why UMH is gaining traction across industries seeking efficient, scalable digital transformation.
Leadership Vision: Building the Backbone for Industrial AI
CEO and co-founder Alexander Krüger describes UMH’s vision as creating the open-source data infrastructure that manufacturing has long lacked. “Every factory runs on decades-old software; data is trapped in proprietary protocols, siloed by vendors, and missing the context that real use cases and AI depend on,” Krüger said. “We are 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.”
The new funding will allow UMH to expand connectivity, scale system performance, and continue building a platform that supports both data engineers and shop floor teams.
Investor Perspective: Industrial Data as a Strategic Enabler
Andreas Winter-Extra, Partner at KOMPAS VC, remarked that industrial AI can only scale once factories have a reliable, shared data foundation. “UMH is building this foundation by transforming fragmented factory data into accurate, contextualised input for analytics and intelligent systems, enabling manufacturers to innovate faster and compete globally.”
UMH’s Chief Commercial Officer, Niklas Hebborn, added that major enterprise software categories such as ERP, CRM, and HR have long-established billion-dollar leaders, while digital manufacturing lacks a dominant global player. “That is our mission: to build the world’s leading industrial data company.”
Strengthening the Platform and Scaling Innovation
The newly raised capital will be used to enhance UMH’s open-source platform, accelerate product development, broaden connectivity options, expand advanced data modelling capabilities, and deepen support for industrial AI agents.
With its growing customer base, strategic investor support, and clear long-term vision, UMH is positioned to become a core infrastructure provider for the next generation of smart manufacturing.
