BERLIN and SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2026 – SPREAD AI, the Engineering Intelligence Platform transforming how the world's most complex products are developed and operated, today announced it has raised $30 million in Series B funding. The round was backed by new investors, including DTCP Growth, IQT, OTB Ventures, Salesforce and Thesiger Capital, as well as angel investors such as Christian Schulz, former CFO of TRATON. Existing investors, including HV Capital and NAP, continued to provide strong support.
The investment deepens our relationship with Salesforce, bringing together SPREAD's Product Truth with Salesforce's Customer 360 to help manufacturers close the "execution gap" between customer expectations, engineering, and operational capabilities. The company will use the new funding to accelerate global expansion across Europe and the U.S., further scale within the Salesforce ecosystem, and strengthen its presence in aerospace & defense, and heavy machinery sectors.
Trusted by leading global manufacturers across Automotive & Transportation, Aerospace & Defense, and Industrial Machinery & Equipment, SPREAD serves as a strategic partner to chief technology officers (CTOs), chief engineers, and operations leaders building the world's most complex products. Across deployments for leading manufacturers, SPREAD has delivered up to 30% faster development cycles, 75% faster engineering troubleshooting, and tens of millions of euros in annual cost savings. This track record, combined with SPREAD's deepened relationship with Salesforce, puts the company in a leading position to define the Engineering Intelligence category globally.
Achyut Jajoo, GM Agentforce Automotive, Manufacturing and Consumer Goods Industries Products at Salesforce, added: "Industrial companies hold decades of engineering knowledge trapped in disconnected systems and data sources. When you combine Agentforce 360 for Manufacturing or Automotive, which includes Salesforce’s industry-specific data models, workflows, apps, Data 360 and Agentic AI, with SPREAD's deep product and engineering intelligence, sales, operations and customer service teams can make the right decisions fast. We're excited to work together with SPREAD to unlock even bigger impact for our customers.”
Marcin Hejka, Co-Founder and General Partner of OTB Ventures, commented: "Unlocking the engineering intelligence buried in industrial legacy systems is one of the biggest opportunities in enterprise AI. SPREAD has the domain depth and the AI-native platform to define this category. We're proud to lead this round."
SPREAD’s Co-founder and Co-CEO Robert Göbel added: "Working with Salesforce gives us the reach to bring Engineering Intelligence to the industrial companies that need it most: the teams developing, operating or servicing defense systems, vehicles, and industrial machinery. Together, we're making sense of industrial data scattered across a sprawl of legacy systems with our AI-native data foundation that lets engineering, sales and service teams decide and act with speed and confidence. This is Industrial AI delivering tangible impact.”
SPREAD's Engineering Intelligence Platform integrates and contextualizes all product-related data across the lifecycle, from early design decisions through production and field operations. The platform seamlessly connects structured and unstructured data across enterprise systems-covering product design, software, manufacturing, and operations-to deliver living "Product Twins" that empower decision-makers to see interdependencies, assess trade-offs in real time, and act faster with confidence.
Deepening the relationship with Salesforce enables immediate capabilities – including Intelligent Case Resolution – that trace customer support issues directly to engineering root causes: Integrated Sales Engineering that qualifies and quotes feature changes based on real technical feasibility and Proactive Quality Management that identifies exactly which high-value customers are impacted and for what scope when a defect is discovered.
"This isn't just about better software, it's about competing at the speed these times demand," said SPREAD’s Co-founder and Co-CEO Philipp Noll. "Global manufacturers have spent decades building world-class products. They deserve an AI-native foundation that respects their engineering data and standards, and future-proofs the operational excellence that sets them apart. That's the partner we're committed to being, bringing deep domain expertise to deliver measurable impact fast, whether that's mitigating billions in risk from a delayed production launch, stemming rising warranty costs, or slashing time to market in half."
The investment arrives as European leaders push to establish AI sovereignty in strategic industries. With the recent EU AI Champions initiative spearheaded by German chancellor Friedrich Merz, French president Emmanuel Macron and existing SPREAD investor General Catalyst, calling for a new generation of European companies to lead in industrial AI, SPREAD is positioning itself to offer manufacturers in Europe, the United States and APAC-MEA a path to AI-powered operations built on European data protection standards and transparent, trustworthy AI principles.
Former RENK and TRATON Chief Financial Officer Christian Schulz added: "Having helped several global OEMs through extensive transformations, I've seen firsthand how fragmented data within and across functions slows everything down: from development to decision-making to operations. SPREAD solves this at the platform level; their integrated approach of unifying data vertically within functions and horizontally across the product lifecycle is exactly what global defense, mobility, and industrial companies need to unlock the full potential of Agentic AI. I'm excited to contribute my industry experience and bring a rigorous focus on where AI for Engineering creates the most value, so that the world's leading industrial economies stay ahead in the age of Agentic AI.”
SPREAD AI empowers global manufacturers to unite, understand, and act on their product data. Founded by Philipp Noll and Robert Göbel in 2019, SPREAD began with the belief that engineering decisions are only as good as the data behind them. That principle still guides how the company builds technology today. Leading global brands use SPREAD's Engineering Intelligence Platform to accelerate development, reduce costs, improve product quality, and increase uptime. SPREAD employs 100 people, primarily in their Berlin HQ. For more information, visit www.spread.ai.