Every manufacturer knows when performance isn’t where it should be. What they’ve never had is a reliable way to know why or how to fix it. Almetra, the Berlin-based manufacturing intelligence company formerly known as Deltia, is built to solve both. Today it announces a $19M Series A led by transatlantic investor blisce/, based in New York and Paris, with participation from NAP, Merantix Capital, Robin Capital, Underline, and Critical Ventures, alongside a group of business angels. The capital will accelerate Almetra’s expansion into the US and scale the model that sets it apart: AI powerful enough to finally diagnose the true causes of production loss, combined with the people who ensure manufacturers act on what it finds.

Most attempts to solve manufacturing underperformance have stopped at the same place: the insight. Dashboards, OEE systems, and AI monitoring tools can tell you that something is wrong. None of them tell you with confidence why and none of them stay to help you fix it. Almetra was built on the conviction that the right insight, plus the right people to act on it, is how manufacturing gets its edge back.

"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 and CEO of Almetra.

From vision to the full factory stack

For Almetra, the new funding marks a strategic inflection point. The company has evolved into a comprehensive intelligence layer for the shopfloor, combining video with machine data, IT systems, and operator know-how into a single source of truth with the team to help act on the insights created for lasting improvements. 

This foundation enables more advanced automation, including robotics in selected production environments. Almetra is already expanding in this direction, with its acceptance into programs such as Google DeepMind’s Robotics Accelerator and AWS, Nvidia, and MassRobotics’ Physical AI Fellowship reflecting both its long-term ambition and the strength of its AI foundation. 

Almetra’s platform deploys AI-powered cameras over production lines and work areas. Raw video is processed locally and converted in real time into structured production data such as cycle times, output rates, and utilization patterns, without requiring any IT integration. Worker privacy is built in by design: all footage is anonymized, and most video data never leaves the factory; only short randomized snippets are retained for root-cause analysis. Almetra’s proprietary AI models are optimized for industrial production environments and adapt to each customer’s specific processes.

Founded in 2022 by Maximilian Fischer and Silviu Homoceanu, Almetra has grown to around 40 employees and works with leading manufacturers across Europe including Bosch, Siemens Energy, and ABB.

"We had been running lean initiatives for years and believed we had a solid understanding of our processes. What Almetra added was continuous visibility into what was actually happening on the shopfloor. Within just a few weeks, we increased output by 19%, and the results have given us the confidence to expand the solution across the plant," says Oliver Medina Castro, VP Manufacturing at eBike Systems.

“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,” says Sam Giber, Partner at blisce/.

About Almetra

Almetra is a Berlin-based manufacturing intelligence company founded in 2022 as a venture build out of Merantix, a leading European AI venture studio. Its AI-powered vision platform provides factory teams continuous, real-time data on shopfloor performance, replacing manual observation and fragmented tracking with ground-truth insights that drive measurable productivity gains. Almetra works with leading manufacturers across Europe including Bosch, Siemens Energy, and ABB.

Learn more at almetra.ai and on LinkedIn. 

About blisce/

blisce/ is a venture capital firm co-headquartered in New York and Paris that backs founders

reshaping industries from early to IPO. The next decade belongs to companies moving beyond

the screen to reshape entire industries. Led by entrepreneur and investor, Alexandre Mars,

blisce/ was built to be that partner.

Learn more at blisce.com.