Synera secures $40 million to integrate agentic AI into engineering processes.

      The Bremen startup's platform utilizes teams of AI agents capable of independently performing engineering tasks across over 75 established tools, without the need to replace any of them. The Series B round was led by Revaia, with Capgemini participating via its ISAI Cap Venture initiative. All investors from the Series A also participated again.

      Synera, the agentic AI platform based in Bremen focused on industrial engineering, has secured $40 million (around €35 million) in a Series B funding round spearheaded by Revaia, with Capgemini taking part through ISAI Cap Venture. Existing investors from the Series A round returned, including UVC Partners, which made a significant commitment from its growth fund, along with BMW iVentures, Cherry Ventures, Venture Stars, and Spark Capital.

      This funding aims to expedite Synera's growth in the United States and internationally, building on its current deployments with organizations such as NASA, BMW, Airbus, Volvo Trucks, and Hyundai. Founded in 2018 in Bremen by Dr. Moritz Maier, Sebastian Möller-Lafore, and Daniel Siegel—who have collaborated since 2006 under the name ELISE (Evolutionary Lightweight Structure Engineering) before rebranding to Synera in 2022—the platform integrates more than 75 engineering tools, including those from Altair, Autodesk, Hexagon, PTC, and Siemens, into a cohesive orchestration layer. This enables AI agents to autonomously manage intricate engineering tasks across design, simulation, optimization, costing, and reporting, without necessitating changes to the existing infrastructure of companies.

      Deployed on-premises, the platform safeguards engineering intellectual property and sensitive data within the customers' own environments. Synera has also established a presence in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The company's methodology is likened to a virtual engineering team, where agents not only assist but take full control of tasks, iterating simulations, creating reports, handling RFQs, and navigating approval workflows without human involvement at every step.

      Internally, the platform is referred to as “JARVIS for engineers.” The outcomes reported by Synera, which have been independently verified by Frost & Sullivan in a 2025 analysis, include a 95% reduction in finite element simulation time at engineering consultancy EDAG and a 30% decrease in the weight of 3D-printed robot gripper designs at BMW’s Additive Manufacturing Campus. NASA has deployed several Synera agents to convert requirements into validated part designs, achieving hundreds of design iterations within an hour.

      This investment landscape reveals a structural mismatch between AI investment and manufacturing deployment. According to Gartner’s 2025 CIO survey, 86% of manufacturing executives plan to boost their generative AI investments in 2026 and 97% anticipate deploying it by 2028; however, only 41% of AI and generative AI prototypes currently make it to production, as reported in Gartner’s 2024 AI Mandates for the Enterprise survey. Synera argues that this gap exists because most AI tools view engineering as a chat interface issue rather than a problem of infrastructure; the agents need to integrate with the actual tools where the work occurs, rather than existing alongside them.

      The company has also received recognition from Frost & Sullivan, having been awarded the 2025 Global AI Agents for Engineering Transformational Innovation Leadership award. The Series A round, which occurred in September 2022, raised $14.8 million, led by Spark Capital with participation from BMW iVentures, Cherry Ventures, UVC Partners, and Venture Stars. With the Series B, total funding has reached approximately $58 million. Capgemini’s involvement through ISAI Cap Venture is strategically significant, as it is one of the largest IT service companies globally and a prominent provider of engineering services within the automotive and aerospace sectors that Synera targets, positioning it as both an investor and a potential channel partner.