Almetra, the Berlin-based manufacturing intelligence company formerly known as Deltia, today announced a €16 million ($19 million) Series A funding round to accelerate product development, international expansion into the US, and the build-out of Almetra’s platform into a comprehensive intelligence and automation layer for the shopfloor.
The round was led by transatlantic investor Blisce, based in New York and Paris, with participation from NAP, Merantix, Robin Capital, Underline Ventures, and Critical Ventures.
“Factories make everything around us, yet most of them are essentially running blind. Plant teams know they are losing capacity, but not where or why. We give them certainty instead of guesswork. Most of our customers find significant optimization opportunities within the first few weeks, and that is exactly the speed this industry needs right now,” says Maximilian Fischer, co-founder & CEO of Almetra.
Almetra’s Series A sits within an active 2026 funding context for industrial AI, manufacturing data infrastructure, physical AI and robotics.
The closest German comparables include Cologne-based United Manufacturing Hub’s €5 million round for factory data infrastructure, Berlin-based SPREAD AI’s €25 million Series B for industrial engineering intelligence, Stuttgart-based Sereact’s €93 million Series B for physical AI in warehouses and manufacturing, and Metzingen-based NEURA Robotics’ much larger round of up to €1.2 billion for physical AI.
Outside Germany, related rounds include Trener Robotics in industrial robot skills, Isembard in software-powered factories, Scope in AI-enabled industrial inspections and THEKER in industrial robotics deployment.
Taken together, 2026 activity points to sustained capital allocation into the data, AI and automation layers around industrial operations, with Germany particularly represented among the announcements.
“Manufacturing is the backbone of the global economy, and the companies that give it better tools are addressing one of the largest opportunities in enterprise technology. Almetra has proven it can deliver measurable impact for some of the world’s leading industrial companies. Maximilian, Silviu and their team have everything it takes to define this category, and we are proud to back them on the next stage of that journey,” adds Sam Giber, Partner at blisce.
Founded in 2022 by Maximilian Fischer and Silviu Homoceanu, Almetra has grown to around 40 employees with clients such as Bosch, Siemens Energy and Aumovio (formerly Continental).
Almetra’s platform deploys AI-powered cameras over production lines and work areas. Raw video is processed locally and converted into structured production data such as cycle times, output rates, utilisation patterns, in real time, without requiring any IT integration.
According to the company, worker privacy is built in by design: all footage is anonymised, and most video data never leaves the factory; only short randomised snippets are retained for root-cause analysis.
Their proprietary AI models are optimised for industrial production environments and adapt to each customer’s specific processes, delivering actionable insights beyond generic
benchmarks. Process engineers and factory managers use these insights to define and measure improvements directly.
Today’s funding will enable more advanced automation, including robotics in selected production environments. Almetra is already expanding in this direction, with its acceptance into programmes such as Google DeepMind’s Robotics Accelerator and AWS, Nvidia and MassRobotics’ Physical AI Fellowship reflecting both its long-term ambition and the potential of its AI foundation.
