CERPRO secures nearly€2 million in pre-seed funding to establish a new quality standard in manufacturing
(PresseBox) - CERPRO, an AI-based SaaS startup for industrial quality assurance, has raised around €2 million in a pre-seed funding round. The lead investor is seed + speed Ventures, with D11Z as co-lead, and participation from EIT Manufacturing and Techstars. With its product QualiSpec, CERPRO automates the creation of inspection plans from technical drawings and connects quality data across the supply chain. Customers report up to 80% faster quality assurance processes. The capital will be used to further expand product development, sales, and international market presence across Europe.
80% More Time, 30% Fewer Errors
In many companies today, engineering, quality assurance, and production still operate in silos. As a result, CERPRO customers report backlogs of several months in quality control and incoming inspection, as documentation is still created and verified manually using paper and Excel. At the same time, up to 30 % of production issues originate not from manufacturing itself but from insufficiently designed technical drawings.
CERPRO’s first product, QualiSpec, automatically detects, interprets, and structures features from technical drawings, enabling the creation of digital inspection plans in a fraction of the time. Since its launch in December 2024, more than 100 SMEs across industries such as aerospace, medical devices, and mechanical engineering have adopted the solution, accelerating their quality processes by over 80 % while significantly reducing error rates. Implementation takes only a few days.
Quality assurance and traceability as a competitive edge
The manufacturing industry is under pressure: labor shortages, rising costs, and increasingly strict quality requirements demand seamless and measurable processes. Automating quality workflows has therefore become key to maintaining competitiveness and ensuring transparency across the supply chain.
CERPRO is driving the shift from reactive inspection to an intelligent, predictive quality system. Building on its existing AI model, the company is expanding its technology toward design and engineering, enabling potential optimizations to be identified already during product development. Over time, the software will proactively recommend design- and manufacturing-ready drawings to further reduce downstream errors. At the same time, the platform creates a shared data foundation that connects OEMs and suppliers across company boundaries. The long-term vision: an intelligent quality network that elevates industrial collaboration to a new level.
Frederik Frei, CEO CERPRO:
“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.”
Alexander Kölpin, Managing Director seed + speed Ventures:
“We’re investing because CERPRO delivers not only speed but reliability: upload a drawing, and you get clear, error-free inspection reports. The result for industrial manufacturing is inspection documentation and processes that integrate seamlessly into existing systems. This ensures that first parts pass on the very first try, reducing scrap and complaints, all while saving valuable work time. That’s sustainable growth through quality.”
Tom Villinger, Managing Director D11z:
“CERPRO’s artificial intelligence is setting new standards in quality assurance. The software not only reduces costs but elevates the entire inspection process to a new level. Its powerful combination of precise analysis and outstanding user experience convinced us as investors. CERPRO has the potential to become the leading technology in industrial quality assurance.”
About CERPRO
Founded in 2023 by Frederik Frei, Sascha Müller, and Henrik Pitz, CERPRO is building an intelligent platform that helps manufacturing companies automate and standardize their quality processes.
With its first product, QualiSpec, CERPRO has introduced one of the most advanced AI models for recognizing and interpreting technical drawings. The software automates inspection and documentation workflows and creates a unified data foundation connecting OEMs and suppliers. More than 100 companies across five European countries already rely on CERPRO, particularly in industries with the highest quality requirements such as aerospace, medical devices, and mechanical engineering.
Headquartered in Berlin, CERPRO’s growing team of software, AI, and manufacturing experts is working to make its platform the industry-wide benchmark for quality.
Further information about CERPRO: www.cerpro.io | LinkedIn
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Datum: 12.11.2025 - 08:00 Uhr
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