MakerVerse

Raising a Series A to source industrial parts globally

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March 21, 2025

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Meet the founders

  • CEO & Managing Director, Dr. Markus Seibold: Ex Siemens Energy and Materials Solutions with 10+ years of experience in scaling 3D printing from earlystage R&D to a commercial business.

  • CTO, Manish Katoch: Ex Nvidia with 15+ years as a tech leader and software architect.

  • COO, Ward Ripmeester: Ex Shapeways building global supply chain and +10 years experience in manufacturing & logistics.

  • CFO & Managing Director, Tim Schark: Ex Siemens Energy and 5+ years of experience in M&A and digital business models.

The Market

  • Manufacturing is mission-critical for the future of our planet, yet only 2% of the $130bn ODM (original design manufacturer) market are addressed by platforms.

This startup is solving two key problems:

  • ~60% of SMBs faced revenue losses of up to 15% or more in recent years due to supply chain delays.

  • Industrial buyers are facing fragmented & inefficient (manual) markets whereas global manufacturers struggle with limited access to global markets & customers as a result of legacy tools & systems.

Founder-market fit:

Strong experience working for current MakerVerse customers and industry titans.

The platform for sourcing industrial parts that enables every industrial buyer to buy any manufacturing part at any supplier without compromising quality.

Facilitated by the MakerVerse marketplace and powered by their native AI operating system MakerVerseOS.

Quickfire

Headquarters

Berlin

Employee count

40

Business model

Marketplace

Backed by 

Siemens Energy Global KG

Carl Zeiss IQR GmbH

9.5 Magnitude Ventures N.V.

AFOS LLC

Funding amount

6 million € Series A+

2 million € committed

Traction Metrics: 

  • 400% Growth YoY (FY1 -> FY2)

  • >80% Order Entry from Repeat Customer

  • 65% Retention on Cohort Level

  • >80% Auto-Quoting for CNC/AM

  • Customers including: ABB, STIHL, Advanced Engineering aerospacelab etc

Competition

Our take

APPEALS

  • MakerVerse OS: The team have built five domain-specific AI agents to automate and digitise everything from quoting to manufacturing and quality inspection.

  • Superior product: Industry-leading standard to digitalise Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) across distributed global supply chains.

  • Recurring customers: >80% of increasing revenue is from recurring customers. Order Entries are increasing over time too.

RISKS

  • Launch MakerVerseOS: A significant part of the MakerVerse product is coined by the OS. It’s critical this goes well to land new accounts and increase wallet share of existing ones.

  • Enhancing margins while expanding the supply chain: MakerVerse are on track to hit their 35% margin target by profitability forecast (FY 28/29). Unexpected fallbacks in expanding supply chain would affect this.

  • Sustaining delivery performance above 95%: Harder achieve and sustain this product quality with scale and rapid expansion.

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