The Berlin startup points cameras at production lines, turns footage into live data, and says it’s boosting productivity at Bosch and ABB plants. Now he wants the United States.
A Berlin startup that captures factory footage and turns it into live production data has raised €16.3 million in Series A funding.
Almetra, until recently known as Deltia, installs AI cameras above assembly lines at companies including Bosch, Siemens Energy and ABB, then analyzes each step of the work to find where production is being lost.
According to the company, customers have increased productivity by approximately 20% as a result.
The tour was led by blisce/, the transatlantic foundation behind Spotify and Pinterest, with participation from NAP. Merantix CapitalRobin Capital, Underline, Critical Ventures and a group of business angels.
Almetra’s own customer figures are more specific: eBike Systems, a subsidiary of Bosch, reported a 19% increase in output within weeks of launch, while ABB reported a 15% improvement in productivity.
Read together, the round 20% reads more like a convenient average of site-varying plant-level results than a single weighted figure.
Almetra was founded in 2022 by Maximilian Fischer and Silviu Homoceanu. Merantixa Berlin AI studio that also incubates names like first fund Vara and Cambrium.
Rebranded from Deltia this year, the new name marks a broader shift in strategy. Where Deltia analyzes the hand-made steps, Almetra positions itself as a broader company “Information and control layer” video for the factory is a single source of operational intelligence that integrates machine data, IT systems and what operators know.
The mechanics are an intentionally light touch. The cameras process video locally and convert footage into structured data such as cycle times, output speeds and equipment utilization without requiring integration into plant IT systems.
Employee privacy becomes a live question when cameras fall on people doing their jobs: footage is anonymized, most never leaves the site, and only brief, random snippets are saved for root cause analysis.
The point is that a camera is the cheapest and fastest way to get into a factory, and once inside, it can become the foundation of everything.
“Factory teams know they’re losing capacity, but not where or why. We give them certainty instead of guesswork.” said acting executive director Fischer. According to him, most customers find significant optimization opportunities within the first few weeks.
The seamless approach is what Almetra uses to differentiate itself from the heavier names in industrial AI. Sight Machine, which has raised more than $85 million, is seeking deeper deployment and targeting larger enterprise deployments; Augury focuses on machine health monitoring through vibration and ultrasonic sensors.
It was a global machine vision market It is worth about $20.4 billion in 2024 and projected to reach $41.7 billion by 2030, Almetra is not alone in chasing the market.
This argument has attracted attention outside of industrial software. Almetra was accepted into the Google DeepMind Robotics Accelerator and Physical Artificial Intelligence Fellowship run by AWS, Nvidia and MassRobotics, recognizing that a company sitting on continuous video from live factory floors is not just a productivity tool, but a potential data source for the next generation of industrial robots.
“Manufacturing is the basis of the global economy” Sam Giber, senior partner at blisce/, said Almetra has shown it can deliver “measurable results” for leading industrial firms.
The company, which currently has about 40 employees, will use the capital to expand into the United States and continue building the platform, including robotics applications in select manufacturing environments.
