Makersite Raises €60M To Accelerate Manufacturers’ Product Development With AI Product Life Cycle Intelligence

Stuttgart, Germany, July 22, 2025 - Makersite has secured €60 million in Series B funding to accelerate its mission of creating a world where every product manufactured is the most affordable, safe, and sustainable it can be through intelligent automation, deep product knowledge, and integrations.

The round was co-led by Lightrock and Partech, and SE Ventures converted its December 2024 CLN into this round. All of Makersite’s Series A investors - including Hitachi Ventures, KOMPAS VC, Translink Capital, and Planet A – participated in the round.

The funding will enable Makersite to enhance its customer offering and scale both its technology and team to meet growing demand from manufacturers seeking to make informed and sustainable decisions throughout the product design process.

“This investment marks a critical milestone in our mission to make sustainable product design the default,” said Neil D’Souza, CEO and Founder of Makersite. “Securing this level of commitment—especially in today’s uncertain economic and geopolitical environment—demonstrates the strength of our business case and the urgency of our mission. The funding will allow us to accelerate platform development, deepen integration with our technology partners, and scale our impact globally.”

Makersite’s AI-powered platform helps manufacturers gain a deeper understanding of what is in their supply chains, starting with fixing product data. The platform takes fragmented and inconsistent customer data and uses artificial intelligence to clean, connect, and structure it. This enriched data is then combined with Makersite’s proprietary data foundation—one of the most comprehensive sources of supply chain information available today. It includes details on how materials and components are made, their cost, environmental footprint, regulatory status, and more.

With this data foundation, Makersite provides powerful tools and system integrations that enable cross-functional teams to analyse design and procurement decisions in real time. The platform also supports performance reporting, helping customers communicate key metrics—such as cost, carbon emissions, product compliance, and risk—to internal stakeholders, customers, and regulators.

Makersite, with its team of over 150 “Makernauts”, enables leading manufacturers—including Microsoft, Daikin, Cummins, Barco, and Schneider Electric—to design safer, more sustainable, and compliant products. The platform’s impact is tangible: Microsoft, for example, has reduced the carbon footprint of its Surface Pro 10 laptop by up to 28% in just two years, while Schneider Electric has scaled eco-design across a portfolio of more than 300,000 stock keeping units (SKUs).

“Our commitment to Makersite reflects our strong confidence in their vision and their unique approach—treating sustainability as a balanced trade-off between cost, safety, and environmental performance, rather than simply a ‘green’ checkbox,” commented Chris Steinau, Partner at Lightrock. “Makersite’s outstanding technology and clear market traction position them as a future leader in helping manufacturers navigate today’s complex challenges and deliver real, measurable impact.”

The need for solutions like those offered by Makersite is being driven by an increasingly competitive manufacturing sector and mounting pressure on corporates to address their greenhouse gas emissions. Manufacturing alone is responsible for approximately 19% of global emissions, highlighting the scale of the challenge facing the industry.1 As regulatory and stakeholder expectations intensify, manufacturers are seeking ways to meet new standards while also re-evaluating and restructuring their supply networks to enhance resilience and reduce supply chain risk.

“We are very honoured and proud to invest in this global impact champion. We have very strong convictions on Makersite's product superiority, the depth of its market where R&D and complex purchasing can be transformed through accelerated insight generation and the exceptional talent of Neil and his team,” commented Arnaud Minvielle and Remi Said, General Partners at Partech. “We believe that we can support Makersite in its next S-curve, alongside Lightrock and other shareholders.”

"We were impressed by the Makersite team’s expertise in lifecycle and supply chain intelligence," said Julien Cristiani, General Partner at SE Ventures. "Their domain knowledge, combined with a clear execution track record, stood out immediately. What sealed our conviction was the company’s growth and the level of automation they’ve achieved - being able to process thousands of SKUs with such speed and precision is a game-changer for supply chain visibility and sustainable product development at scale."