Makersite Raises €60M in Series B

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 green it can be through intelligent automation, deep product knowledge and integrations.

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

Fueling product, partners and customer growth

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 Makersite platform integrates with leading product lifecycle management (PLM) systems, like Siemens’ Teamcenter® software and PTC Windchill, and design tools, such as Ansys and Autodesk, already used by manufacturers.

Providing Insights to Drive Business Impact

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 will use Makersite to scale EPD and eco-design across a portfolio of more than 200,000 stock keeping units (SKUs). Schneider Electric’s Chief Digital Officer, Peter Weckesser, adds: “partnering with Makersite gives our teams and customers unparalleled insight into the environmental impact of products, accelerating our journey toward net-zero and setting new benchmarks for resilience and innovation.” Makersite’s technology is redefining how manufacturers understand, optimise, and report on their products and supply chains.

“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 Greater Need for Competitive Advantage in Manufacturing

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.”

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[1] Source: Our World in Data – Greenhouse gas emissions by sector.

Notes to Editors

About Makersite

Makersite is an award-winning data software company that develops next-generation product data management tools for the global manufacturing industry.  The platform is the only cloud-based platform combining data aggregation and live applications for agile product life cycle management.

Makersite empowers companies to manage product sustainability, cost, and compliance. The state-of-the-art approach to product data management has allowed companies of all shapes and sizes to take advantage of what it has to offer. For larger enterprises, the reduction in complexity and increase in agility is the main aim, while for small businesses, the search for cost effective solutions is the main driving force. Through a cutting-edge technology, big data, and breakthrough algorithms, companies can track a product’s emission footprint throughout the entire supply chain, including Scope 3 emissions, bringing carbon accounting to the next level.

Makersite uses artificial intelligence and graph technology to build digital twins of manufactured products. This approach enables teams to measure impacts and collaboratively identify optimal mitigation strategies and new sourcing opportunities in real-time and make better products, faster. Engineers and product teams can develop more compliant, safer, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly products faster, and get results up to 50x faster than traditional methods.

For more information, visit: www.makersite.io

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About Lightrock

Lightrock is a global investment platform committed to building a sustainable future. Operating across private and public markets, Lightrock manages over $5.5 billion in assets and invests in Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Lightrock is a certified B Corp with a dedicated team of over 130 professionals working across a network of six offices.

Lightrock’s private market investing is focused on backing purpose-driven entrepreneurs tackling the world’s biggest challenges. Lightrock has invested in more than 90 companies that pursue scalable and tech-driven business models around the key impact themes of people, planet, and productivity.

For more information, visit www.lightrock.com

About Partech

Partech is a global tech investment firm headquartered in Paris, with offices in Berlin, Dakar, Dubai, Nairobi, and San Francisco. Partech brings together capital, operational experience, and strategic support to back entrepreneurs from seed to growth stage. Born in San Francisco 40 years ago, today Partech manages €2.7B AUM and a current portfolio of 220 companies, spread across 40 countries and 4 continents.

Partech Impact is Partech’s growth impact fund. Partech Impact invests in European impact technology champions that have already demonstrated a proven business model and aim to accelerate their growth. Partech Impact invests in companies that want to fundamentally change the value chains in which they operate in industry, environment, agriculture, cities, and healthcare.

For more information, visit www.partechpartners.com