French construction materials giant Saint-Gobain has acquired a minority stake in the Swiss manufacturing hardware and software scale-up Plantformance via its corporate venturing arm Nova. The funds will flow into growing the team and rolling out its products and solutions on a larger global scale with new and large clients.
Founded in 2017 by two co-founders, Dominique Wille (CEO) and Rok Zupan (CTO) and based in the canton of Aargau, Plantformance is a fast-growing company providing high-performance manufacturing with a secured hardware and software development solution on-site or in the Cloud. Its signature hardware, the server FactoryBrain, can manage 100+ client stations, 100 operators, and 1 million sensors and actuators without slowing down. The company currently operates and maintains approximately 200 “FactoryBrain” servers on-site and manages 2 million real-time signals and interfaces for 40+ enterprise solutions. Plantformance's customers, large industrial groups based in 20 countries on four continents, also benefit from its suite of products, including FactoryClient, FactoryTouch and IoT sensors designed specifically for manufacturing.
Plantformance has closed its first growth equity round with Nova by Saint-Gobain, a worldwide leader in light and sustainable construction. Active in 75 countries, Saint Gobain generated €51.2 billion in sales in 2022 and employs 168,000 people.
The proceeds from the round will boost the company’s business development activities and team expansion to further grow Plantformance products and solutions globally while facilitating the manufacturing industry to adapt to the next IT efficiency and security levels.
In line with the financing round, Plantformance has strengthened its board of directors by welcoming Raphaël Viard, VP & CDIO at Saint-Gobain High-Performance Solutions.
(Press release/RAN)
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