Technology by engineers, for engineers

Leadership

Philipp Noll

Co-Founder & MD

Product & Sales, former Production Engineer at Mercedes and Senior Strategy Consultant at Porsche

Robert Göbel

Co-Founder & MD

Marketing & Operations, former Solution Manager Watson IoT at IBM and Manager at Porsche consultancy

Tomas Karlsson

CTO

Former Director SW Development at Bentley, Founder of Agency9 (Digital Twins for Infrastructure, sold to Bentley)

Shane Connelly

CPO

Former Head of Product at Vectara and Elastic

Robert Graser

VP of Sales

Former VP Sales at brighter AI and Director Central Europe at Applause

Alexander Matthey

VP Marketing & People

Former Associate Partner at McKinsey leading Growth, Marketing & Sales work in Automotive, Industrial and Tech

Steinunn Arnardottir

VP of Engineering

Former CTO & co-founder of Totoli and Senior Director at Native Instruments

Lutz Joachim

Head of Customer Value

Former Director EU Solution Delivery & QA Consulting at Applause

November 2019 Foundation and seed investment

SPREAD starts operations in November. Cavalry, La Famiglia and several Business Angels invest in SPREAD.

January 2020 First customer and use case

Mercedes becomes our first customer and, after a successful pilot phase, we released our first use case with a complete user journey to guide workers in finding electric failures in cars 75% faster.

March 2022 Rollout and expansion

In the beginning of 2022, we managed to scale 3 use cases along the complete product lifecycle to multiple customers, industries, and factories around the world

September 2022 SPREAD Studio

By developing SPREAD Studio, our low-code environment, we managed to speed up use case development by a huge margin, arriving at 20 use cases within months.

May 2023 Closed Series A funding

The round was led by HV Capital, with participation from existing investors Cavalry Ventures, as well as angel investors Dylan Field, Figma Co-Founder & CEO, the founders of logistics unicorn Sennder, and Summit Partners founder Walter Kortschak.

November 2024 The Spark Innovation Award Winner

SPREAD is the winner of The Spark Innovation Awards 2024! Handelsblatt and McKinsey are awarding this prize for the ninth time to exceptional and innovative start-ups whose ideas have the potential to fundamentally and sustainably change markets.